*This paper is the result of work being undertaken as part of a collaborative research program entitled ‘The Performance of Australian Enterprises: Innovation, Productivity and Profitability’. The project is generously supported by the Australian Research Council and the following collaborative partners: Australia Tax Office, Commonwealth Office of Small Business, IBIS Business Information Pty ...

We show that explicit cartels can implement market share allocations using a reporting framework that is considered to be legally acceptable for trade associations. This simple resolution of the market share cartel’s monitoring problem provides an explanation for the apparent prevalence of market share allocations relative to customer or geographic allocations by explicit cartels. Keywords: exp...

Although unavailability and failure frequency are both important reliability measures for designing telecommunications networks, having two different reliability measures causes difficulties when their evaluation results contradict each other. To overcome these difficulties, I propose an approach to determining a single reliability measure to be used. I focus on market share, which is a very im...

world production of caviar from the farmed sturgeon has recently so increased that in addition to compensate reduction of natural resources of sturgeon, it has also increased its share in the world market for caviar and its substitutes. although belarus, china and norway are currently considered as the main exporting countries of caviar and its substitutes but, iran solely exports caviar from s...

In this paper, a dominant firm and competitive fringe supply substitute goods to a retailer who has private information about demand. We show that it is profitable for the dominant firm to condition payment on how much the retailer buys from the fringe (market-share contracts). The dominant firm thereby creates countervailing incentives for the retailer and, in some cases, is able to obtain the...

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In air travel, an itinerary is a direct flight or sequence of connecting flights between two cities. The objective of itinerary market share estimation is to forecast market shares of competing itineraries. This paper examines and compares three different methods for itinerary market share estimation: multinomial logit models, artificial neural networks, and a custom model developed by the auth...

W examine box-office sales in the context of a market share model. This is accomplished by developing a combination of a sliding-window logit model and a gamma diffusion pattern in a hierarchical Bayes framework. We show that accounting for the full choice set available every week not only increases the fit of weekly movie sales but also leads to parameter estimates that depict a richer picture...