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Price Discrimination in Markets for Experts' Services

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the consequences of price discrimination in a market for experts’ services. In the case of experts markets, where the expert observes the intervention that a consumer needs to fix his problem and also provides a treatment, price discrimination proceeds along the dimension of...

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Incumbency Advantage in Non-Democracies

Egorov, Georgy; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

democracies. The incumbent can prevent credible challengers from running, organize vote fraud, or even physically eliminate the …

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On Doctors, Mechanics and Computer Specialists. Or Where are the Problems with Credence Goods?

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

yielding equilibria exhibiting various degrees of inefficiencies and fraud. The variety of results has fostered the impression …

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Kin Groups and Reciprocity: A Model of Credit Transactions in Ghana

La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies kinship-band networks as capital market institutions. It explores two of the channels through which membership in a community where individuals are genealogically linked, such as a kin group, can affect their access to informal credit. The first is that incentives to default...

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Shareholders and Stakeholders: Human Capital and Industry Equilibrium

Ippolito, Roberto; Miller, Marcus; Zhang, Lei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

-specific skills. But the threat of poaching means that it is the individual ‘stakeholder’, not the firm, who must bear the cost. We …

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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R; Roed, Knut; Skogstrøm, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...

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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial: Distinctions by Entry Visa

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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Progressive Taxes and Firm Births

Bacher, Hans Ulrich; Brülhart, Marius - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Tax reform proposals in the spirit of the 'flat tax' model typically aim to reduce three parameters: the average tax burden, the progressivity of the tax schedule, and the complexity of the tax code. We explore the implications of changes in these three parameters on entrepreneurial activity,...

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Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth

Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross; Michalopoulos, Stelios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We model technological and financial innovation as reflecting the decisions of profit maximizing agents and explore the implications for economic growth. We start with a Schumpeterian endogenous growth model where entrepreneurs earn monopoly profits by inventing better goods and financiers arise...

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