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Innovation in marketing channels is a theme that has been treated in reference to specific areas of innovation or to single categories of subjects within channels. Fewer studies have been conducted with a perspective referring to the channel as a whole. This work aims to analyze the theme of...
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We report an experimental test of alternative rules in innovation contests when success may not be feasible and contestants may learn from each other. Following Halac et al. (forthcoming), the contest designer can vary the prize allocation rule from Winner-Take-All in which the first successful...
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We model the main arguments of the net neutrality debate in a two-sided market framework with network congestion … the adverse effects of traffic prioritization to the remaining best-effort class and find that network discrimination has … inelastic advertisement revenues. In the long-run, network discrimination leads to infrastructure investments in transmission …
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We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP … short run, because it better allocates the existing network capacity, and in the long run, because it provides higher … providers. Which network regime is the most efficient depends on the distribution of congestion sensitivity among content …
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We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP … short run, because it better allocates the existing network capacity, and in the long run, because it provides higher … providers. Which network regime is the most efficient depends on the distribution of congestion sensitivity among content …
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We study the impact a redistribution of income has on the decisions of a health care innovator and the utility of consumers. We find that income redistribution from rich to poor increases the quality of the medical innovation, reduces its price and increases the utility of some of the consumers...
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We investigate the conditions for the desirability of exclusive intellectual property rights for innovators, as opposed to weak rights allowing for some degree of imitation and ex-post competition. The comparison between the two alternatives reduces to a specific "ratio test," which suggests...
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Governments often subsidize poorer groups in society to ensure their access to new drugs. We analyse the optimal income‐based price subsidies in a strategic environment. We show that universal access is less likely to arise when price arbitrage prevents international price discrimination. When...
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This paper extends the Schumpeterian model of creative destruction by allowing followers' cost of innovation to increase in their technological distance from the leader. This assumption is motivated by the observation the more technologically advanced the leader is, the harder it is for a...
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