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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Vertical Product Differentiation"”.
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Vertical product differentiation and competition in the supermarket industry
… firms. Using a model of competition based on the vertical product differentiation (VPD) enciogenous sunk cost framework proposed by Sutton (1991), several empirical implications are identified and evaluated using a detailed dataset of store level observations from the supermarket industry. Chapter …
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Examining product differentiation within the big 4 in the Australian audit market
This study examines vertical product differentiation within the Big 4 audit firms in the Australian audit market and potential pricing effects resulting from this differentiation. Assuming a competitive Big 4 audit market, systematically higher prices pertaining to one particular Big 4 audit firm …
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Product Differentiation in International Trade
This thesis is concerned with the role of product quality in explaining observed price and trade patterns. The first chapter introduces the topic, summarizes the main findings of the dissertation and contrasts them to other results in the literature. The second chapter develops a tractable general …
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Variety, price and quality in the South African automotive industry (2000-2009)
… model, the Melitz [2003] model and models of vertical product differentiation hold true for the developments in the South African automotive industry for the period 2000 to 2009. A new and highly disaggregated dataset of car prices and car sales is used, listing 2252 car varieties. It is found …
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THE ECONOMICS OF CHILD ADOPTION: THEORY AND EVIDENCE
… a demand perspective based on the framework of vertical product differentiation. With the assumption that adoptive parents have identical preference but different income levels, we derive the demand for private and public adoptions and examine an adoption policy. We show that adoption subsidies …
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INVESTMENTS IN PRODUCT QUALITY WITH HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH
… Chapter 1 shows that a rise in the cost of production of the competitor will induce a firm to invest more in R&D if and only if the quality difference between the existing product and the product emerging from R&D activities is sufficiently large. Also, welfare-reducing effect of helping a …