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I show how changes in competition affect the power of reputation to induce sellers to exert effort. The impact of … the value of building a reputation through effort. In this framework, more competition depresses hosts' profits and leads … competition on sellers' incentives is theoretically ambiguous. More competition disciplines sellers, but, at the same time, it …
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I show how changes in competition affect the power of reputation to induce sellers to exert effort. The impact of … the value of building a reputation through effort. In this framework, more competition depresses hosts' profits and leads … competition on sellers' incentives is theoretically ambiguous. More competition disciplines sellers, but, at the same time, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857911
We study how buyer power affects producers' incentives to share information with retailers. Adopting the Bayesian persuasion framework, we show that full information disclosure is optimal only when buyer power is sufficiently low. Using the presence of retail price recommendations as the proxy...
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A characteristic of many information markets is that consumers can cross-check information, i.e. observe several information sources. To explore this we build a model of market for information where information outlets can only report a coarse signal and face a distribution of consumers with...
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We propose a model of intermediated digital markets where data and heterogeneity in tastes and products are defining features. A monopolist platform uses superior data to match consumers and multiproduct advertisers. Consumers have heterogenous preferences for the advertisers' product lines and...
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We suggest a model of electoral competition between two parties which is extended by a third player : mass media. The … classical one-dimensional competition model is changed by introducing an issue-specific sensibility-coefficient and by allowing …
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efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
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efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271236
smaller CRAs and new incumbents are the increase of market share as well as reputation. Therefore, the market competition … prevailing incentive problem of the market and contemporaneously satisfy the reputation demand of the investors? This paper … theoretical approach that considers reputation as one of the most important aspects within the market. After analysing the status …
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