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Knowledge Commodification and New Patterns of Specialisation: Professionals and Experts in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS)

Strambach, Simone - 2010

The knowledge society is characterized by knowledge becoming a kind of commodity that can be traded and priced. Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are representative for such a knowledge-based economy, since their main input and output factor is directly related to knowledge itself....

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Dynamic Model of Markets of Homogenous Non-Durables

Kaldasch, Joachim - In: British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade 9 (2015) 3, pp. 1-12

the supply side of the market evolves much faster than the demand side the theory suggests that unsatisfied demands are …

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Net Neutrality and Internet Fragmentation: the Role of Online Advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …. We therefore identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet …

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Microeconomic flexibility, creative destruction and trade

Blyde, Juan; Pineda, José - 2009

increases aggregate productivity because high-efficiency firms expand through exporting and low-efficiency firms exit the market …

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Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Multi-Unit, Sequential, Oral, Ascending-Price Auctions With Asymmetric Bidders

Paarsch, Harry J.; Brendstrup, Bjarne - 2004

Within the independent private-values paradigm, we derive the data-generating process of the winning bid for the last unit sold at multi-unit sequential English auctions when bidder valuations are draws from different distributions; i.e., in the presence of asymmetries. When the identity of the...

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Privatization and Restructuring in Concentrated Markets

Norback, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2004

sales price because of strategic investment and product market effects. …

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Do negative headlines really undermine the credibility of a quality label? A quasi-natural experiment

Hildenbrand, Andreas; Kühl, Rainer; Piper, Anne - 2015

In 2013, Stiftung Warentest tested hazelnut chocolate for their leading magazine, called Test. Stiftung Warentest is one of the most important consumer organizations in Germany. Ritter Sport is a high-quality producer of chocolate in Germany. Their hazelnut chocolate did not pass the test. It...

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Cooperation in R&D and sample selection

Piga, Claudio; Vivarelli, Marco - 2002

This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into a cooperative R&D relationship is related to the antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, allows the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...

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Privatization, competition and corruption: How characteristics of bribe takers and payers after bribe payments to utilities

Clarke, George R. G.; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2002

Many recent studies have looked at the macroeconomic, cultural and institutional determinants of corruption at the cross-national level. This study complements these existing cross-country studies by focusing on firm-level evidence of microeconomic factors affecting bribes paid in a single...

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The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition

Dhingra, Swati; Morrow, John - 2012

A fundamental question in monopolistic competition theory is whether the market allocates resources efficiently. This … paper generalizes the Spence-Dixit-Stiglitz framework to heterogeneous firms, addressing when the market provides optimal … market allocations are efficient. When demand elasticities vary, market allocations are not efficient and reflect the …

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