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Online price dispersion has remained a puzzle for many years. In this article, we test the effects of a range of factors identified in the literature including vendor strategy, market structure, vendor heterogeneity and the time dimension. We use a dataset collected from the Amazon.com,...
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This paper empirically investigates the effect of international simple resale (ISR) authorization on the prices for international message telephone service (IMTS). We compile a firm-level panel data set for over 200 United States-foreign country bilateral markets from 1995 to 2004. These data...
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This paper provides a snapshot of the state of the literature on payment cards, particularly from the perspective of interchange fees and the economics literature on two-sided markets. The paper aims to integrate a wide range of theoretical papers with the relevant empirical research and...
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This paper develops a gravity model framework to estimate the impact of infectious diseases on bilateral tourism flows among 38,184 pairs of countries over the period 1995-2017. The results confirm that international tourism is adversely affected by disease risk, and the magnitude of this...
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Using a new firm-level dataset on private and listed firms from 20 countries, we documentfive stylized facts on market power in global markets. First, competition has declinedaround the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm markups during 2000-2015. Second, the markup increase...
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and, more specifically, China. …
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China's engagement in the so-called international fragmentation of production - namely cross-border dispersion of … in parts and components between China and its main trading partners. Applying an adjusted gravity modelling method, the … paper explores how China's pattern of trade in parts and components is being determined. The paper found that China's rapid …
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and, more specifically, China. -- International R&D spillovers ; outward foreign direct investment ; export driven …
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China's engagement in the so-called international fragmentation of production - namely "cross-border dispersion of … in parts and components between China and its main trading partners. Applying an adjusted gravity modelling method, the … paper explores how China's pattern of trade in parts and components is being determined. The paper found that China's rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793591