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The Aims of Anthropological Research.

The science of anthropology has grown up from many distinct beginnings. At an early time men were interested in foreign countries and in the lives of their inhabitants. Herodotus reported to the Greeks what he had seen in many lands. Caesar and Tacitus wrote on the customs of the Gauls and Germans. In the Middle Ages Marco Polo, the Venetian, and Ibn Batuta, the Arab, told of the strange people...

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Für Sozialforschung Social Science Research Center Berlin

Buyers’ Alliances for Bargaining Power by Suchan Chae and Paul Heidhues We provide a novel explanation as to why forming an alliance of buyers (or sellers) across separate markets can be advantageous when input prices are determined by bargaining. Our explanation helps to understand the prevalence of buyer cooperatives among small and medium sized firms.

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Für Sozialforschung Social Science Research Center Berlin

Product Market Competition and Lobbying Coordination in the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications Industry* by Astrid Jung and Tomaso Duso This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms’ lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying coordination. Applying ...

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Für Sozialforschung Social Science Research Center Berlin

Estimating Network Effects and Compatibility in Mobile Telecommunications

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