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In this paper we test the retail milk price integration between two countries, Poland and Hungary. Conventional linear cointegration methods do not reveal any relationship between the two prices, therefore we apply Gonzalo and Pitakaris (2006) method to test the linear cointegration null against...
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search costs on firm competition and marketstructure by exploring a unique theoretical insight that search costscreate a kink … costsand the kinked demand function provides information on how search costsaffect competition in the online market. Using a … prices than when it increases prices,increasing Amazon's incentive to engage in price competition. On theother hand …
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Information systems and the Internet have facilitated the creation of used product markets that feature a dramatically wider selection, lower search costs, and lower prices than their brick-andmortar counterparts do. The increased viability of these used product markets has caused concern among...
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The Fruit and Vegetables (FV) sector has a relevant and increasing economic value in the EU, accountingfor about 20% of the total value of agricultural production; the Countries with higher significance are Greece, Spainand Italy (from 25% to 35%). Nevertheless the producers are negatively...
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which, as in Linder’s theory, product quality plays the central role. A formal derivation of the Linder hypothesis is … for Linder’s theory. …
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This dissertation involves three essays, studying firms' decision-making on marketing mix variables. Specifically, the first essay (Chapter 2) studies the effects of distribution channels on firms' advertising content decision. In many markets, consumers may not have full information of product...
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Competition among multi-store chains is common in retail industries.This paper proposes a method for eliminating a … (economics of density) and lost revenuesfrom competition with one's own stores (own-chain business-stealingeffect). I apply the … twocounterfactual analyses. First, I consider a hypothetical merger of twochains and find that the merger would decrease the number of …
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the slaughterhouses of bovine meat, and to verify if the merger, in order to get scale economies, can always imply in … welfare of the society. The methodology was applied for two types of merger: merging enters the two companies with lesser …
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