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Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation [PDF]
When an industry is monopolized, price rises above and output falls below the competitive level. Those who continue to buy the product at the higher price suffer a loss, but this loss is exactly offset by the additional revenue that the monopolist ...
Richard A. Posner
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Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
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Dynamic monopoly with relational incentives [PDF]
This paper studies the price-setting problem of a monopoly that in each time period has the option of failing to deliver its good after receiving payment.
Wolitzky, Alexander
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Changing preferences: an experiment and estimation of market-incentive effects on altruism [PDF]
, 2019 This paper studies how altruistic preferences are changed by markets and incentives. We conduct a laboratory experiment in a within-subject design. Subjects are asked to choose health care qualities for hypothetical patients in monopoly, duopoly, and ...
Byambadalai, Undral +2 more
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Gag Gifting: The Joke and the Poke
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gag gifting is a ritual involving a gift along with a joke at the expense of the recipient (i.e., a “poke”). This study shows that gag gifting occurs frequently, at various occasions. Findings from a qualitative study illustrate the way gag gifts are purchased or handmade into unique or personalized items.
Robert M. Schindler +2 more
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Decision‐Making in M&A Under Market Mispricing: The Role of Deep Learning Models
Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the ever‐evolving landscape of financial markets, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) play a pivotal role in shaping the corporate ecosystem. However, the presence of market mispricing, driven by various factors such as information asymmetry, behavioral biases, and external shocks, has been a persistent challenge for investors and corporations ...
Yuxuan Tang
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Introducing New Products via Social Media Influencers: Pricing and Commission Strategies
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms are increasingly leveraging social media influencers to enhance customer awareness of their products and generate sales. In this paper, we develop a two‐period model to investigate a firm's strategy for introducing a product via an influencer.
Zhenhao Li, Liping Liang
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DISTINGUISHING THE SOURCE OF MARKET POWER: AN APPLICATION TO CIGARETTE MANUFACTURING [PDF]
We compare nonparametric and nonstructural market power tests using data from the cigarette manufacturing industry. Tests are implemented to examine both monopoly and monopsony power exertion by cigarette manufacturers. Results indicate that market power
Love, H. Alan +2 more
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Supplier Encroachment Strategies on a Retail Platform With Strategic Consumers
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the impact of quality differentiation and strategic customer behavior on supplier encroachment strategies in a two‐period supply chain. The supply chain consists of a supplier and a retail platform that not only resells products from the supplier but also offers agency selling, allowing the supplier to sell directly to its ...
Bin Dai, Yuwen Du, Qi Fu
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Attitudes to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Complications in Medieval English Miracula
Gender &History, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This article re‐examines the evidence about childbirth and related topics in the posthumous miracle collections of English saints. It finds forty‐eight such miracles in collections of thirteen English saints, mostly from the century or so after 1170. The article argues that the context in which the stories were composed is vitally important to
Ben Nilson, Ruth Frost
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