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subsequent entry plays a primary role in generating turbulence in high growth markets, while displacement of incumbents by recent … entrants is the main selection force in declining markets. As product life cycles progress, trial-and-error entry subsides, and … the use of panel data to study the evolution of single product markets. We find that replacement of exiting firms by …
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We analyze the interaction between market structure and market performance and how it varies over the product cycle. To account for the potential endogeneity in this relation, we use an instrumental variable approach. We combine data from the largest Austrian online market for price comparisons...
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by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input prices of firms, and all their moves in the entry …' entry decisions in the past. We find that instrumenting is particularly important for estimating the effect of competition …
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We analyze the strategic behavior of firms when demand is determined by a rule of thumb behavior of consumers. We assume consumer dynamics where individual consumers follow simple behavioral decision rules governed by imitation and habit as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we...
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by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input prices of firms, and all their moves in the entry …' entry decisions in the past. We find that instrumenting is particularly important for estimating the effect of competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307832
incorporates endogenous product selection within firms. Our findings suggest that product switching contributes to a reallocation …
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We analyze the strategic behavior of firms when demand is determined by a rule of thumb behavior of consumers. We assume consumer dynamics where individual consumers follow simple behavioral decision rules governed by imitation and habit as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850650
A dynamic microeconomic model is presented that establishes the price and unit sales evolution of heterogeneous goods consisting of successive homogenous product generations. It suggests that for a fast growing supply the mean price of the generations are governed by a logistic decline towards a...
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We exploit detailed product- and firm-level data for the consumer goods industry and we document that the sales of individual products decline at a steady pace throughout most of their life cycles. This pattern is common across heterogenous types of products and is mostly due to declines in...
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industry dynamics emphasizing firm heterogeneity and self-selection into individual product markets. Our findings suggest that …
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