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What drives differences in management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …
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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
such a competition affects the resources invested by the groups’ supporters and how beneficial it is to immigrants. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688921
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2010
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...
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Does product market competition lead firms to decentralize?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933250
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The impact of competition on management quality : evidence from public hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969414
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Trade induced technical change? : the impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and productivity
Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Van Reenen, John - 2011
We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …
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Does product market competition lead firms to decentralize?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924436
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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
such a competition affects the resources invested by the groups’ supporters and how beneficial it is to immigrants. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658270
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2010
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007019
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Lotteries vs. all-pay auctions in fair and biased contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012
The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...
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