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Superstars, Winner-Take-All Markets and Economic Growth

Peng, Baochun - Business School, University of Nottingham - 2009

This paper argues that the “superstar” phenomenon, as a natural outcome of features of knowledge-based products, has important relevance for - and has so far been overlooked by - endogenous growth theory. By modelling superstar phenomena as outcomes of winnertake-all contests in an...

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The Weightless Economy in Economic Development

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income---the growing weightless economy---influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ``distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Are managers paid for market power?

Eeckhout, Jan; De Loecker, Jan; Bao, Renjie - 2022

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Taxation and the superrich

Scheuer, Florian; Slemrod, Joel - 2019

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Superstars and disloyal football fans: factors influencing attraction to competition

Hoegele, Daniel; L. Schmidt, Sascha; Torgler, Benno - In: Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 4 (2014) 4, pp. 298-316

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of superstars (and other factors) on football fans … evidence that superstars both attract new fans and contribute to the retention of existing fans. While the presence of … superstars, team loyalty and team identification prevent football fans from being attracted to competition, the team's recent …

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Superstar firms and aggregate fluctuations

Haque, Qazi; Pavlov, Oscar; Weder, Mark - 2024

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Entry of painters in the Amsterdam market of the golden age

Etro, Federico; Stepanova, Elena - 2015

We analyze the evolution of the price of paintings in the XVII century Amsterdam art market to test a hypothesis of endogenous entry: higher profitability should attract more entry of painters, which in turn should lead to artistic innovations and more intense competition. We build a price index...

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A Room with a View — A Valuation of the Mediterranean Sea View

Fleischer, Aliza - 2012

Aesthetic view is one of the ecosystem services of the Mediterranean Sea which can be estimated using price differences in the hotel market. Hotels situated on the Mediterranean Sea charge higher prices for a room with a sea view than for a room without it. The value of this view in 10 major...

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Research on house prices, accessibility and socio-economic neighborhood attributes in southern Sweden

Kettinger, Zoltan; Andersson, David Emanuel - 2012

According to social scientists such as Richard Florida and Ronald Inglehart, the structural changes that accompany post-industrialization not only change the industrial and occupational structures of post-industrial regions. They also affect the value structure so that creativity, quality of...

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The influence of noise on net revenue and values of investment properties: Evidence from Switzerland

Fahrländer, Stefan Sebastian; Gerfin, Michael; Lehner, … - 2015

In this study we use hedonic models to measure the influence of noise nuisance on rents, costs and values of investment properties in Switzerland. Countrywide data is provided by institutional real estate investors. The effects are measured for aircraft noise, road traffic noise and railroad...

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