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Cooperation between Competitors - Subcontracting and the influence of information, production and capacity on market structure and competition
Schenk, Christoph - 1999
In dieser Arbeit wird eine wettbewerbspolitische Beurteilung der Zusammenarbeit von Wettbewerbern in Form von Querlieferungen vorgenommen und der Einfluß von Information, Produktion und Kapazität auf Marktstruktur und Wettbewerb analysiert. In drei spieltheoretischen Modellen werden die...
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Government R&D Subsidies as a Signal for Private Investors
Kleer, Robin - 2008
a simple signaling model with different types of R&D projects to capture this phenomenon. In a setup where the subsidy …
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A Price is a signal: on intrinsic motivation and crowding-out
Bolle, Friedel - 2007
If a previously unpaid activity (donating blood) is paid then we often observe that this activity is reduced. In this paper, it is hypothesised that the price offered is taken as a proxy for the "market value" of the activity. Depending on how the actor valued the activity previously,...
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The banking firm: the role of signaling with collaterals
Bieta, Volker; Broll, Udo; Siebe, Wilfried - 2008
In this paper we challenge basic results of signaling models. In our banking model each project of a borrower is …
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Low quality as a signal of high quality
Clements, Matthew T. - 2010
determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use price alone as a signal, or price and quality together. Both … signals tend to be used when the market is very uninformed, whereas price signaling alone tends to be used when the market is …
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Workshop Organisation und Ordnung der japanischen Wirtschaft V; Themenschwerpunkt: Deutschlandjahr in Japan - eine Zwischenbilanz
Pascha, Werner (contributor); Storz, Cornelia (contributor) - 2006
die signaling-Funktionen ab. Roman Bartnik, ebenfalls Duisburg-Essen, behandelt 'Außenhandel, Signaling und der deutsche … socio-economic analysis of the German Year, stressing public good-properties and signaling. Roman Bartnik, also from the … University of Duisburg-Essen, contributes a paper on 'Foreign trade, signaling, and the German pavilion - Expo 2005 in Japan from …
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Low quality as a signal of high quality
Clements, Matthew T. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-5, pp. 1-22
determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use price alone as a signal, or price and quality together. Both … signals tend to be used when the market is very uninformed, whereas price signaling alone tends to be used when the market is …
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Signaling Quality through Prices in an Oligopoly
Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Roy, Santanu - 2007
Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is increasing in quality and the quality of each firm’s product...
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Signalling to whom? Conspicuous spending and the local density of the social group income distribution
Chai, Andreas; Kaus, Wolfhard - 2012
We empirically evaluate two competing explanations about how the dispersion of income within social groups affects household spending on visible goods. Using South African household expenditure data, we find evidence that precisely the reverse of the effect predicted by Charles et al. (2009)...
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Signal-Jamming in a Sequential Auction
Ding, Wei; Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - 2009
In a recurring auction early bids may reveal bidders' types, which in turn affects bidding in later auctions. Bidders take this into account and may bid in a way that conceals their private information until the last auction is played. The present paper analyzes the equilibrium of a sequence of...
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