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This study analyzes the long-term evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry, and offers a new synthesis of the dynamic forces that spearheaded the expansion and transformation of this large manufacturing industry. The evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry between...
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modernization investments, including ICT. The second part of the paper presents evidence on firms’ productivity paths, and the … heterogeneity in productivity among relatively similar firms. I also present selected evidence of these firms’ investments in … innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …
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corporations are less disposed to investments that may indirectly benefit ordinary workers and more disposed to shareholder value …
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By April 2013, the FCC's recent bill-shock agreement with cellular carriers requires consumers be notified when exceeding usage allowances. Will the agreement help or hurt consumers? To answer this question, we estimate a model of consumer plan choice, usage, and learning using a panel of...
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This study contributes to the empirical industrial organization literature by deriving and estimating the empirical equation containing the parameter for bargaining power and an indicator of competition between suppliers. We specify a reduced form of the price equation, which is composed of the...
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Is there any evidence that innovation and technological progress are contained by competition and fostered by monopoly power? Our results based on a newly constructed dataset of US manufacturing industries observed over two decades suggest that this is not the case.On the contrary, using both...
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This paper develops and estimates a structural model of two-sided markets with durable platform intermediaries and affiliated products. It models buyers' purchase decisions of plat- forms and affiliated products and sellers' decisions of price-setting and entry, accounting for the dynamic...
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In this paper we study the impact of competition on the provision of quality in the US airline industry. Using changes in competition triggered by LCC entry and airline mergers, we find that an increase in competition increases the provision of quality of major incumbent and non-merging airlines...
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We investigate the effect of competition on price dispersion in the airline industry. Using panel data from 1993 to 2008, we find a non-monotonic effect of competition on price dispersion. An increase in competition is associated with greater price dispersion in concentrated markets but is...
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