This paper examines the nature of market orientation (MO) in entrepreneurial firms and proposes a conceptual model of market firm interface appropriate to entrepreneur led firms.

Based on a feasibility analysis on the product and source market orientation of the Ailing River Drifting Scenic Spot, this article explores its product quality as well as market strategies in four aspects including product, price, promotion and place.

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We analyze contingent price contracts as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of increased quality uncertainty in e-commerce. A contingent contract specifies a sequence of possible quality levels and corresponding prices. Electronic commerce infrastructure enables the capture and dissemination of information about the likelihood of each quality level. When the public probabilities differ from...

We consider the best quadratic unbiased estimators of the integrated variance in the presence of independent market microstructure noise. We establish the asymptotic normality of a feasible best quadratic unbiased estimator under the assumption of constant volatility and show that it is asymptotically e cient when the market microstructure noise is normal. Since the class of quadratic estimator...

Permit markets lead polluting …rms to purchase abatement goods from an eco-industry, which is often concentrated. This paper studies the consequences of imperfect competition in an ecoindustry on the equilibrium choices of the competitive polluting …rms. It then characterizes the second best pollution cap. By comparing this situation to a competitive one, we show that Cournot competition on the...

Speculative episodes typically involve leverage. For example, the well known tulipmania episode was accompanied by the introduction of foward contracts which allowed speculators to take leveraged positions in tulip bulbs. More recently, the Great Crash of 1929 was exacerbated by leveraged trusts which used leverage to buy stocks. These leveraged trusts could in turn be bought on margin which al...

We develop a simple model featuring search frictions and a nondegenerate labor supply decision along the extensive margin. The model is a standard version of the neoclassical growth model with indivisible labor and idiosyncratic productivity shocks and frictions characterized by employment loss and employment opportunity arrival shocks. We argue that it is able to account for the key features o...

Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive? We study active labor market policies (ALMP) in a matching model. ALMPs are modelled as a subsidy to job search. Workers differ in their productivity, and search takes place along an extensive margin. An additional job seeker affects the quality of unemployed workers. As a result, the Hosios conditions are no longer valid. To replicate the o...

We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We show that there are increasing returns to education at the labor market participation margin, and that these depend directly on the elasticity of labor supply with respect to wages. Thu...