Do Alliances Lead to Competition? An Empirical Analysis of the US Biopharmaceutical Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 18342
Author(s):  
Victor Cui ◽  
Haibin Yang ◽  
Ilan Vertinsky
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Biopharmaceutical Industry ◽  
The Us

Religion and Religiosity in the US

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Detlef Pollack ◽  
Gergely Rosta
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Although the countries of Western Europe are very similar to the US in terms of their social, political, and economic conditions, they differ greatly when it comes to religion. Chapter 10 discusses how these differences can be explained. The empirical analysis shows that, besides the considerable differences in the level of religiosity between the US and Western Europe, there are also surprising similarities in the weakening church ties and religious practices. The findings demonstrate that it is in many respects not Europe but America that is the exception. This relates among other things to the level of social inequality, which is unusually high for a modern society, the strong tendencies towards functional dedifferentiation, such as between religion and politics, and the traditionalism of the culturally accepted system of values.

scholarly journals Intermediaries in Two-Sided Markets: An Empirical Analysis of the US Cable Television Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Boik
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Cable Television ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Local Content ◽  
Local Television ◽  
The Us ◽  
Pricing Behavior ◽  
Cable Television Industry ◽  
Two Sided Markets

Local television stations are platforms in a two-sided market connecting advertisers and viewers. This paper explicitly examines the effect that important intermediaries (such as cable, telephone, and satellite distributors) may have on a platform's pricing behavior in a two-sided market. I find that stations raise their fees to cable distributors because stations prefer that viewers access their content through satellite distributors with whom they do not compete in the local advertising market, and that station mergers lower stations' fees to distributors by partially internalizing a pricing externality that results from the mandatory bundling of local content. (JEL C78, D12, G34, L11, L82, M37)

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