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We provide a survey of the main mechanisms of market selection used in economics. We gather them in three theoretical … paradigms (rational equilibrium, Simonesque and evolutionary), that we try to reconcile in terms of underlying laws of selection …, which is aimed at the replication of empirical patterns related to firm heterogeneity, rather than in the theory underlying …
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Owned by nobody and controlled by an almost immutable protocol the Bitcoin payment system is a platform with two main constituencies: users and profit seeking miners who maintain the system's infrastructure. The paper seeks to understand the economics of the system: How does the system raise...
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This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product … extent of competition from substitute products. I estimate that, in 2019, public corporations produced consumer surplus in …
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This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product … extent of competition from substitute products. I estimate that, in 2019, public corporations produced consumer surplus in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290154
This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product … extent of competition from substitute products. I estimate that, in 2019, public corporations produced consumer surplus in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262031
In intermediate goods markets, both buyers and sellers normally have market power, and sales are based on bilaterally negotiated contracts specifying both price and quantity. In our model, pairs of buyers and sellers meet in bilateral but interdependent Rubinstein-Ståhl negotiations. The...
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Due to markup distortions, in international trade models with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms the …
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We investigate a market in which experts have a moral hazard problem because they need to invest in costly but unobservable effort to identify consumer problems. Experts have either high or low qualification and can invest either high or low effort in their diagnosis. High skilled experts are...
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This paper concerns the operation of competition in the presence of a high rate of innovation and increasing returns …. Given free competition there is likely to exist, in this case, a tendency towards what may be called "dynamic equilibrium … this investment yields only a normal return. Thus, competition, increasing returns and innovation may co-exist …
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One of the most basic principles in economics is that competitive pressure promotes efficiency. However, this pressure can also have a dark side because it makes firms reluctant to act on private information that is unpopular with consumers. As a result, firms that possess superior information...
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