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deviations in market structure from global competition, implicitly assumed in Dosi et al. (2017b). This extension makes it … possible to disentangle the effects of two modes of competition: the global competition for sales and the localised competition … intensive local competition. Our model also contests the conventional wisdom derived from a general equilibrium setting that …
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competition with random demand and costless search: A theory of price posting. Econometrica 80, 1185-1247] --- high …
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This paper finds empirical support to systematic peak-load pricing in airlines---higher fares in ex-ante known …
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Prices for the same flight change substantially depending on the time of purchase. This paper uses a unique dataset with round-the-clock posted fares to document significant within-day price variation. Labeling time-variation as discriminatory is difficult because the cost of an unsold airline...
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Customer satisfaction and loyalty are important concerns for travel providers and have a significant role in maximizing their sales. Therefore, adopting the activities of customer relationship management could help them building strong relationships with customers. This study explores the...
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This paper analyses endogenous formation of technology sharing coalitions with asymmetric firms. Coalition partners produce complementary technology advancements, although firms do not co-operate on R&D investment level or in the product market. The equilibrium coalition outcome is either...
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This paper formalizes an empirically implementable framework for the definition of local antitrust markets in retail markets. This framework rests on a demand model that captures the trade-off between distance and pecuniary cost across alternative shopping destinations within local markets. The...
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) deregulation had any effect in increasing competition, as expected, with the temporal exception in one or two cases. Moreover …
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This paper computes and compares alternative quality-adjusted price indexes for new cars in Spain in the period 1990 - 2000. The proposed hedonic approach simultaneously controls for time-invariant unobserved product effects and age effects, that can be interpreted as a proxy for time-variant...
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Motivated by the fact that some regulations involve extra costs for those firms at a size beyond a critical threshold, this paper contributes to the analysis of the welfare distortions due to these regulations. In the context of a duopoly, our results show that social welfare is not monotonic...
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