Price Competition between an Expert and a Non-Expert
Jan Bouckaert, Hans Degryse
International Journal of Industrial Organization,
No. 6,
2000
Abstract
This paper characterizes price competition between an expert and a non-expert. In contrast with the expert, the non-expert's repair technology is not always successful. Consumers visit the expert after experiencing an unsuccessful match at the non-expert. This re-entry affects the behavior of both sellers. For low enough probability of successful repair at the non-expert, all consumers first visit the non-expert, and a 'timid-pricing' equilibrium results. If the non-expert's repair technology performs well enough, it pays for some consumers to disregard the non-expert a visit. They directly go to the expert's shop, and an 'aggressive-pricing' equilibrium pops up. For intermediate values of the non-expert's successful repair a 'mixed-pricing' equilibrium emerges where the expert randomizes over the monopoly price and some lower price.
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Spillover effects and R&D co-operations - The influence of market structure
Anita Wölfl
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 122,
2000
Abstract
This paper examines empirically the role of market structure for the influence of spill-over effects on R&D-cooperations. The results of a microeconometric analysis, based on firm data on innovation, let in general presume that with intensified competition also the influence of spillovers on R&D-cooperation increases. However, competition seems to induce firms to search for effective firm-specific appropriation facilities first. Spillovers that are sufficiently high such that the internalisation effect from R&D-cooperation more than outweighs the competitive effect from research, only arise whenever firms are not able to protect their research results through any appropriation facility. Additionally, there is some evidence that spillover effects may even hinder firms from cooperating in R&D when there is intensive competition on the research stage.
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Macroeconomic and corporate adjustment progress in East Germany (13th joint report by DIW Berlin, IfW Kiel and IWH Halle)
Forschungsreihe,
No. 2,
1995
Abstract
Schwerpunkt des 13. Berichtes ist eine Zwischenbilanz der Transformation der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft von der Planwirtschaft zur sozialen Marktwirtschaft nach fünf Jahren. Dazu werden die Untersuchungsergebnisse zur Erneuerung der Wirtschaftsstruktur und zur Entwicklung in ausgewählten Wirtschaftsbereichen (u. a. Industrie, Baugewerbe, Handel und Verkehr sowie Wohnungswirtschaft) präsentiert. Entwicklungshemmnisse werden benannt und Vorschläge für die Wirtschaftspolitik unterbreitet.
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