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-stage cartel formation experiment where multiple ringleaders may emerge. Although theory predicts that cartels will always be …
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bargaining (as practised in Germany for the last decades) on the one hand, and local bargaining (as customary in the UK and … lately aspired by some German publishers) on the other. We point out several advantages of centralized bargaining: While, in … the short run, local bargaining appears more attractive to publishers, it may lead to higher prices for readers and, in …
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family: Asiacentricity and its ethical imperative for intercultural communication -- 4 Constituting intercultural harmony by … and the management of intercultural conflict -- 6 Transforming conflict through communication and common ground -- 7 … styles with peers and older adults: the indirect effects through filial obligations -- 12 Intercultural communication …
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We study strategic communication between a Sender and Receiver who are both uncertain about their preferred actions … the Sender's advice at face value and ii) the unique outcome of Nash-bargaining over information structures induces … precisely a situation where communication about ideal policies is credible. The resulting equilibrium features message …
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Given various recent antitrust investigations on the retail sector, we deal with uncovering demand systems substitution patterns for a particular market (diapers) to investigate the inter-format competition (supermarkets vs. discounters vs. drugstores). Using the uncovered demand system we...
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We analyze the effects of structural remedies on merger activity in a Cournot oligopoly when the antitrust agency …
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The literature on the licensing of an innovation has mainly focused on some specific contract types. We show within the framework of a fairly general model that removing these contractual limitations will lead to extreme market outcomes. Specifically, we find that when the patentee can employ...
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excess capacities that make competition more intense. One finds unstable cartels especially for low discount rates as these …
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The slow recovery following the 2008/2009 recession has led to renewed interest in the question whether deep recessions lower real GDP permanently or whether we can expect a rebound to earlier trend levels. Using a recent quantile autoregression unit root test we check whether shocks to real GDP...
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