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Product quality in different markets and cost structure
Matsubara, Kiyoshi - 2010
This paper analyzes the behavior of monopoly firm serving its products to two countries. The main focus of this paper is on how the product-quality choice in different markets are related with the cost structure of the firm. First, This paper examines the effects of production and R&D costs on...
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Hello... are you still there? : an empirical analysis of how market structure affects the quality of mobile networks
Wellmann, Nicolas - 2019
literature suggest a negative effect of (price) competition on investments in mobile networks. To the best of our knowledge this … auctions may alter competition in the mobile market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289373
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Can hospitals compete on quality?
Sadat, Somayeh; Abouee-Mehrizi, Hossein; Carter, Michael W. - In: Health care management science 18 (2015) 3, pp. 376-388
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341693
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More than words : a global analysis of the socio-economic impact of Rich Interaction Applications (RIAs) : 28th ITS Europe, Passau, Germany
Arnold, René; Hildebrandt, Christian; Tas, Serpil; … - 2017
strive for framework conditions that enable or even better facilitate innovation as well as dynamic competition. Ultimately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778592
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Home-market and cost effects of international product-quality allocation
Matsubara, Kiyoshi - 2012
This paper analyzes the behavior of firm(s) serving its products to two countries having different consumers in terms of their valuation of product quality. The home-market of firm(s) is a developed country with small population but high valuation of product quality, while the foreign is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517861
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Bundling, consumer retention and entry : evidence from fixed broadband market
Grzybowski, Lukasz; Liangy, Julienne; Zulehnerz, Christine - 2017
firms which cannot sell fixed-mobile bundles are disadvantaged in competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760229
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Advanced strategies for assessing the quality of agricultural products
Creţu, Diana - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 30-33). 2017
The new developments in the agri-food product market in terms of quality, but also due to changes in the consumer behavior of agri-food products, it is necessary to implement new strategies on this market. These are primarily reflected in assessing and improving the quality of agri-food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849613
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The information paradox in a monopolist's credence goods market
Jost, Peter-J.; Reik, Steffen; Ressi, Anna - 2019
Credence goods markets, such as those for car repairs and medical treatments, are generally characterized by an ex-ante and ex-post information asymmetry between the uninformed buyer and the informed seller. Previous literature demonstrates that efficiency and fraud in a monopolist credence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286246
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Impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition and investment
Jeanjean, François - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a … model of oligopoly competition with di¤erentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I … competition that maximizes investment of the industry. This feature holds also for consumer surplus and Welfare. In the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957665
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Impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services : evidence from France
Grzybowski, Lukasz; Nicolle, Ambre; Zulehner, Christine - 2017
In this paper, we assess the impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services in France. We estimate …-adjusted prices to a set of competition and regulation variables and find that the launch of 4G networks by mobile operators was the … jointly a significant impact on quality-adjusted prices. In percentage terms, competition is responsible for about 68% of …
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