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Regional Characteristics and the Survival of New Firms
Karlsson, Charlie; Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge - 2015
There is an abundant literature on industrial ecology aiming at explaining the survival propensity of recently started firms. The majority of the contributions concentrate on the characteristics of the entrepreneur, the new firm or the industry. Only a small minority of the existing studies...
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Does one more or one less mobile opertor affect prices? A comprehensive ex-post evaluation of entries and mergers in European mobile telecommunication markets
Csorba, Gergely; Pápai, Zoltán - 2013
different structural changes between countries to separate the respective effects. Our results show that the effect of entry … lead to misleading conclusions. We find no robust evidence that entry has a price-decreasing effect on markets with … originally 2 operators. However, the entry of a 4th operator does have a price-decreasing effect, but with different dynamics …
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The Mobile Broadband and Fixed Broadband Battle in Swedish market: Exploring complementary or substitution
Srinuan, Chalita; Srinuan, Pratompong; Bohlin, Erik - 2010
The mobile broadband (MBB) in Swedish market has become a more attractive opportunity for service providers, with growing demand for ubiquitous broadband connectivity after the mobile operators got 3G license in 2000. MBB seems to have more advantage compare to Fixed broadband (FBB) in term of...
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Becoming obsolete: Bankruptcy through technological progress
Kleinert, Barbara - 2011
This paper studies product obsolescence, the entry and exit of firms, and the evolution of firm size as foundation of …
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Using social media data to understand mobile customer experience and behavior
Hsu, Wenling; Jacobsen, Guy; Jin, Yu; Skudlark, Ann - 2011
Understanding mobile customer experience and behavior is an important task for cellular service providers to improve the satisfaction of their customers. To that end, cellular service providers regularly measure the properties of their mobile network, such as signal strength, dropped calls, call...
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An empirical analysis of the state of competition in OECD mobile wireless markets
Sung, Nakil; Kwon, Mi-ae - 2011
Contra the current trend of deregulation, mobile wireless markets in the OECD member states appear, until recently, to have been more or less concentrated. The study estimates the equations for market concentration, mobile prices, and profits using annual panel data from 24 OECD member states...
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Entry and Shakeout in Dynamic Oligopoly
Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Hünermund, Paul; Takahashi, Yuya - 2015
industry shakeout: a large number of firms exit within a short period. We present a simple timing game of entry and exit with …In many industries, the number of firms evolves non-monotonically over time. A phase of rapid entry is followed by an … particular, our model gener- ates richer and more realistic dynamics than competitive models previously analyzed. The entry phase …
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Income Inequality and Export Prices Across Countries
Janeba, Eckhard; Flach, Lisandra - 2015
This paper provides first firm-level evidence on the links between income inequality within a country and the patterns of trade and export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which relates income inequality to product quality and prices using a simple demand...
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The effects of cultural distance on multi-unit firms
Rydzek, Benedikt; Egger, Peter; Riezman, Raymond - 2015
In this paper we develop a model to analyze the effects of (country-pair-specific) costs of creating, transferring and accessing intangible assets for multi-unit firms. These costs might vary with the cultural distance between countries, such as the difference in language, work ethics or other...
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Fuel Prices and Station Heterogeneity on Retail Gasoline Markets
Siekmann, Manuel; Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2015
Price levels and movements on gasoline and diesel markets are heavily debated among consumers, policy-makers, and competition authorities alike. In this paper, we empirically investigate how and why price levels differ across gasoline stations in Germany, using eight months of data from a novel...
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