- Referencia: y Alcalá, F: “Specialization Across Goods and Export Quality”. , Journal of International Economics, 98, pp. 216-232.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the link between specialization across goods and specialization within goods along the quality dimension. It develops a tractable many-country, many-industry Ricar- dian model with an integer number of heterogeneous firms producing each good, under a generic assumption about the distributions of firm e ciencies. In equilibrium, each country exports a range…
- Referencia: Alcalá, F, González-Maestre, M y Irene Martínez-Pardina: “Information and Quality with an Increasing Number of Brands”. , International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 37, 109-117, 2014.
ABSTRACT We analyze the potential trade-off between product variety and consumer information and the implications this trade-off has for product quality. We introduce a simple information accumulation process in a horizontal differentiation model with unobservable quality. As the number of brands increases, per-brand consumer information decreases, which leads to lower average quality. Eventually, the reduction…
- Referencia: Feijóo, C, Gómez-Barroso, J. L y P. Voigt: “Exploring the economic value of personal information from firms’ balance sheets”. , International Journal of Information Management, vol. 34, nº 2, pp. 248-256.
ABSTRACT Currently personal data gathering in online markets is done on a far larger scale and much cheaper and faster than ever before. Within this scenario, a number of highly relevant companies for whom personal data is the key factor of production have emerged. However, up to now, the corresponding economic analysis has been restricted…
