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Agglomeration, integration, and territorial authority scale in a system of trading cities : centralisation versus devolution
Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004
This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...
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Reciprocal dumping with Bertrand competition
Friberg, Richard (contributor);  … - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper examines if international trade can reduce total welfare in an international oligopoly with differentiated goods. We show that welfare is a U-shaped function in the transport cost as long as trade occurs in equilibrium. With a Cournot duopoly trade can reduce welfare compared to...
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Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in … shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting … concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009160798
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Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in … shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting … concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230887
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Multi-product firms, endogenous sunk costs, and gains from trade through intra-firm adjustments
Irlacher, Michael - 2014
In this paper, I investigate welfare gains associated with trade induced intra-firm adjustments of multi-product firms. To disentangle the welfare gains, I split up the R&D portfolio of a multi-product firm into three different channels: i) product innovation, ii) investments in the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010396072
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Can Belgian firms cope with the Chinese dragon and the Asian tigers? : the export performance of multi-product firms on foreign markets
Abraham, Filip; Van Hove, Jan - 2010
Exporting firms are affected in many ways by competition on foreign markets. This paper focuses on the impact of Asian competition on the bilateral export performance of Belgian firms, controlling for firm level as well as destination-market characteristics. Export performance is measured in...
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Product versus process : innovation strategies of multi-product firms
Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - 2015
We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in industries with different scope for product differentiation. Industry-specific demand and cost linkages induce a distinction between the returns to innovation. In differentiated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283837
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Multiproduct multinationals and the quality of innovation
Sasan, Bakhtiari; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013
This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed by firms is fundamental and the extent to which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731013
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Product versus process : innovation strategies of multi-product firms
Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - 2014
This paper studies the innovation strategies of multi-product firms in industries with different scope for product differentiation. In a simple model of multi-product firms, we show that returns to product versus process innovation are industry-specific. Demand and cost linkages induce a natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010396076
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Multi-product firms in international economics
Irlacher, Michael - 2022
A striking pattern in transaction-level data is the concentration of international shipments in the hands of a few large firms. One common feature of dominating high-performance firms is that they produce multiple products and ship them to many destinations. Motivated by the emergence of highly...
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