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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition
Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition...
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Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations: Overcoming the Liability of Dispersion
Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083814
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Peer Effects, Risk Pooling, and Status Seeking: What Explains Gift Spending Escalation in Rural China?
Chen, Xi; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon--peer effect, status concern, and risk pooling--based on a census-type primary household survey in...
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In our model, workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either through formal agencies or through informal networks of contacts (word-of-mouth communication). From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789195
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The arrival of cheap goods: Measuring the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic prices
Auer, Raphael; Fischer, Andreas M; Kropf, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
What is the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic producer prices? In a panel covering 23 (2 digit) NACE manufacturing sectors from 1995 to 2008, instrumental variable estimations predict that when Chinese imports capture a 1% increase in market share, Nordic producer prices decrease by...
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Tear Down this Wall: On the Persistence of Borders in Trade
Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
evolution of intra-German trade flows after reunification then provides new insights for both the globalization and border …
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Whence Policy? Government Policies, Finance, and Economic Integration
Bertola, Giuseppe; Lo Prete, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
choices and interpret them structurally as reactions, shaped by country-specific characteristics, to exogenous globalization …
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Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez; Gonzales, Rafael Dobado; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …
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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...
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A New Look at Offshoring and Inequality: Specialization Versus Competition
Ekholm, Karolina; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
fact been bell-shaped. We argue that this bell-shaped evolution of wage inequality can be linked to globalization and a … rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative …
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