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"From IE to JIT to Time-Based Competition"
Blackburn, Joseph D.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N. - 1993
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Airport curfew and scheduling differentiation : domestic versus international competition
Sun, Joo Yeon - In: Journal of air transport management 87 (2020), pp. 1-8
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Piracy and competition
Belleflamme, Paul; Picard, Pierre M. - 2004
The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly horizontally differentiated, demands are interdependent because the...
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Information acquisition and strategic disclosure in oligopoly
Jansen, Jos - 2007
I study the incentives of oligopolists to acquire and disclose information on a common demand intercept. Since firms may fail to acquire information even when they invest in information acquisition, firms can credibly conceal unfavorable news while disclosing favorable news. Firms may earn...
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On the (mis-) alignment of consumer and social welfare in markets with network effects
Suleymanova, Irina; Wey, Christian - 2008
We analyze duopoly Bertrand competition under network effects. We consider both incompatible and compatible products. Our main result is that network effects create a fundamental conflict between the maximization of social welfare and consumer surplus whenever products are incompatible. While...
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Bertrand competition in markets with network effects and switching costs
Suleymanova, Irina; Wey, Christian - 2008
We analyze market dynamics under Bertrand duopoly competition in industries with network effects and consumer switching costs. Consumers form installed bases, repeatedly buy the products, and differ with respect to their switching costs. Depending on the ratio of switching costs to network...
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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Quality competition or quality cooperation? License-type and the strategic nature of open source vs. closed source business models
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2010
In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...
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Product differentiation and welfare in a mixed duopoly with regulated prices: the case of a public and a private hospital
Herr, Annika - 2009
Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of different objectives of the hospitals on quality, profits, and overall welfare in a price regulated duopoly with symmetric...
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Electronic coordination in oligopolistic markets: Impact on transport costs and product differentiation
Bandulet, Martin; Morasch, Karl - 2002
Produktdifferenzierung eigentlich erhöhen. Wir analysieren die Interaktion der Investitionsentscheidungen in transportkostensenkende … elektronische Koordination und in verstärkte Produktdifferenzierung in einem Duopol mit räumlich getrennten Märkten. Wir zeigen … Parameterbereiche existieren in denen die Unternehmen nach einer exogenen Senkung der Transportkosten die Produktdifferenzierung …
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