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Either or both competition : a "two-sided" theory of advertising with overlapping viewerships ; conference paper

Ambrus, Attila; Calvano, Emilio; Reisinger, Markus - 2013

This paper develops a fairly general model of platform competition in media markets allowing viewers to use multiple … platforms. This leads to a new form of competition between platforms, in which they do not steal viewers from each other, but … competition "either or both." A central result is that platform ownership does not affect advertising levels, despite nontrivial …

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Price guarantees, consumer search, and hassle costs : conference paper

Baake, Pio; Schwalbe, Ulrich - 2013

The paper deals with the competitive effects of price guarantees in a spatial duopoly where consumers can search for lower prices but have to incur hassle costs if they want to claim a price guarantee. It is shown that symmetric equilibria with and without price guarantees exist but price...

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Limiting rival's efficiency via conditional discounts : conference paper

Greer, Katja - 2013

This paper studies the impact of a dominant firm's conditional discounts on competitors' learning-by-doing. In a vertical context where a dominant upstream supplier and a competitive fringe sell their products to a single downstream firm, we analyze whether the dominant supplier prefers to off...

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The road not taken : competition and the R&D portfolio : conference paper

Letina, Igor - 2013

amount of duplication of research. An increase in the intensity of competition among firms leads to an increase in the …

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Competitive pressure and corporate crime : conference paper

Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2014

This paper explores the relationship between the intensity of competition in product markets and firms' incentives to … us to differentiate between several measures for the intensity of competition. We establish that more firms in the … industry (i.e., lower entry costs) reduce the crime rate. Furthermore, whether more intense competition due to the increased …

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Can network effects impede optimal contracting in debt securities? conference paper

Engert, Andreas; Hornuf, Lars - 2013

We examine network effects as an impediment to optimal financial contracting. In devising the terms of their transaction, the parties may prefer to conform to a market standard rather than matching their own contracting needs. To study this possibility, we investigate choice of contract law...

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Does globalization create superstars? : a simple theory of managerial wages ; conference paper

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2013 - This version: October 2012

To examine the impact of globalization on managerial compensation, we consider a matching model where firms compete both in the product market and in the managerial market. We show that globalization, that is, the simultaneous integration of product markets and managerial pools, leads to an...

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Abuse of forward contracts to semi-collude in volatile markets : conference paper

Aichele, Markus - 2013

I model the optimal semi-collusive strategy of firms using forward contracts in volatile markets. It has been shown that forward contracts can be used to stabilize a collusive agreement under deterministic (Liski and Montero, 2006) as well as under stochastic market conditions (Aichele, 2012)....

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Cartel formation with endogenous capacity and demand uncertainty : conference paper

Paha, Johannes - 2013

excess capacities that make competition more intense. One finds unstable cartels especially for low discount rates as these …

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Consumer's environmental awareness and the role of (green) entrepreneurship : lessons from environmental quality competition and R&D activities for environmental policy ; conferenc...

Klarl, Torben - 2013

In the recent last years, in particular in the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis, many countries initiated economic recovery plans with a major focus on stimulating green entrepreneurial activities to revive economic growth. Further, the recovery plans intend to improve a...

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