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Der Wert von Markennamen in der Konsumgüter-Industrie: Eine Anwendung des hedonischen Preisansatzes auf die Surfboard-Industrie
Gröhn, Andreas - 1996
Markennamen spielen eine wichtige Rolle im Wirtschaftsleben. Doch wie hoch ist ihr Wert wirklich? Der hedonische Preisansatz ist geeignet, den Wert von Markennamen auf Produktebene zu bestimmen. Er wird in dieser Arbeit vorgestellt und auf die Surfboard-Industrie angewandt. Die...
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Heterogeneous consumer preferences for product quality and uncertainty
Maennig, Wolfgang; Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2021
We provide evidence for heterogeneous consumer preferences for product quality and game outcome uncertainty (GOU) in Major League Baseball. Using attendance data from 2013 to 2019, we explore functional data clustering techniques to detect common patterns in predictive margins of team-specific...
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Heterogeneous consumer preferences for product quality and uncertainty
Maennig, Wolfgang; Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2021
We provide evidence for heterogeneous consumer preferences for product quality and game outcome uncertainty (GOU) in Major League Baseball. Using attendance data from 2013 to 2019, we explore functional data clustering techniques to detect common patterns in predictive margins of team-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794169
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Online reputation and debt capacity
Derrien, François; Garel, Alexandre; Petit-Romec, Arthur; … - 2020
This paper explores the effects of online customer ratings on debt capacity. Using a large sample of Parisian restaurants, we find a positive and economically significant relation between customer ratings and bank debt. We use the locally exogenous variation in customer ratings resulting from...
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Assessment of tourist competitiveness by analysing destination efficiency
Cracolici, Francesca; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006
Recently the notion and the measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the … subject of this paper - inspired by the conceptual competitiveness model developed earlier by Crouch and Ritchie - concerns … tourist site competitiveness in terms of its technical efficiency using parametric and non-parametric methods, a stochastic …
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Oligopolistic competition in price and quality
Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2008
We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
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Disclosure of information under competition : an experimental study
Sheth, Jesal - 2019
The theory of voluntary disclosure of information posits that market forces lead senders to disclose information through a process of unravelling. This prediction requires that receivers hold correct beliefs and, in equilibrium, make adverse inferences about non-disclosed information. Previous...
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Breaking it down : competitive costs of cost disclosures
Berger, Philip G.; Choi, Jung Ho; Tomar, Sorabh - 2019
Financial accounting affords considerable discretion to firms in aggregating internal information for external dissemination, yet little evidence exists about the consequences of such aggregation. We examine a central operational effect by studying whether withholding disaggregated cost...
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Worker training and quality competition
Bilanakosa, Christos; Heywood, John S.; Sessions, John G.; … - 2017
We uniquely examine the relationship between firm-sponsored training and product quality competition. Using an oligopolistic model of both price and quality competition, we show that an increase in the sensitivity of demand to product quality will strengthen firms’ incentives to train their...
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Limited capacity in project selection : competition through evidence production
Boleslavsky, Raphael; Cotton, Christopher - 2015 - Current version: June 2015
An organization must decide which proposals to fund. In evaluating the proposals, the organization may rely on those applying for funding to produce evidence about the merits of their own proposals. We consider the role of a capacity constraint preventing the organization from funding all...
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