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Asymmetric Models of Sales

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
We generalize the captive-and-shopper model of sales to allow asymmetries in production costs and captive audiences, in oligopoly. Bothkinds of asymmetry determine the firms that compete (via randomized sales) to serve the price-comparing shoppers, while
D. Myatt, David Ronayne
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Reversing the Resource Curse: Foreign Corruption Regulation and the Local Economic Benefits of Resource Extraction

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We examine how foreign corruption regulation affects the economic benefits communities receive from extraction activities in the resource-rich areas of Africa.
H. Christensen, Mark Maffett, Thomas Rauter   +2 more
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Firm Boundaries and Voluntary Disclosure

Social Science Research Network
We study how vertical integration shapes firms’ public disclosures. Theory suggests that firms can use public disclosure to coordinate with supply chain partners and predicts a substitution between vertical integration and public disclosure of future ...
Thomas Bourveau, John D. Kepler, Guoman She, L. Wang   +3 more
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Monopolization with Must-Haves

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
An increasing number of monopolization cases have been constructed around the notion of “must-have” items: products that distributors must carry to “compete effectively.” Motivated by these cases, we consider a multiproduct setting where upstream ...
Enrique Ide, Juan-Pablo Montero
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Customer Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Sales Managers in International Markets

Social Science Research Network
Expanding their customer base is crucial for firms to grow. This paper leverages sales managers' job-to-job transitions to better understand how buyer-seller relationships form.
Bérengère Patault, Clémence Lenoir
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