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Intermediaries as quality assessors: Tour operators in the travel industry
(2008)
Intermediaries often arise in order to facilitate trade in markets characterized by asymmetric information. In the travel industry, policymakers have tried to address information asymmetries by providing hotel ratings. We ...
Modeling the diffusion of strategies: An application to exporting
(2009)
We examine whether the spread of an exporting strategy can be characterized as a diffusion process using a general framework that accounts for attrition and changes in the pool of potential adopters and allows the diffusion ...
A new data set on competition in national banking markets
(2015)
We estimate the degree of competition in the banking sectors of 148 countries over the period 1997-2010 using three methods: the Lerner index, the adjusted Lerner index, and the profit elasticity. Marginal cost estimates ...
Are standards effective in improving automobile fuel economy? an international panel analysis
(2007)
There is an intense debate over whether fuel economy standards or fuel taxation is the more appropriate policy instrument to raise fuel economy and reduce CO2 emissions of cars. The aim of this paper is to analyze the ...
The effect of standards and fuel prices on automobile fuel economy: An international analysis
(2008)
There is an intense debate over whether fuel economy standards or fuel taxation is the more efficient policy instrument to raise fuel economy and reduce CO2 emissions of cars. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact ...