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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying-seconds" of international football matches
Ours, Jan C van; Van Tuijl, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six …
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Taxation and International Migration of Superstars: Evidence from the European Football Market
Kleven, Henrik; Landais, Camille; Saez, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Europe. We construct a panel data set of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first …This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of top football players in … tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top tax rate …
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Winning by Losing: Incentive Incompatibility in Multiple Qualifiers
Dagaev, Dmitry; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
that the existing national rules of awarding places for the UEFA Champions Leagues and the UEFA Europa League, which are …
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Import Competition and Exit in Business Services Sectors
Bombarda, Pamela; McCann, Fergal; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Business services firms are increasingly under pressure from foreign competition. We develop an oligopolistic competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services sector. We assume that firms are heterogeneous in their...
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Are Markets More Competitive if Commodities are Closer Substitutes?
Schulz, Norbert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
Equilibrium prices of the variants of a differentiated commodity are shown to increase if the variants become closer substitutes, under a set of circumstances, which is by no means pathological. Rather, the underlying argument has a bearing on market prices, whenever a potential buyer does not...
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Why Do Market Shares Matter?: An Information-Based Theory
Caminal, Ramon; Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
We analyse the informational content of market shares and prices in a dynamic duopoly model in which consumers have heterogenous information on the quality differential (q) of two goods. It is shown that when firms are poorly informed about q, and therefore the ability of prices to reveal...
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Trade Effects of Minimum Quality Standards with and without Deterred Entry
Lutz, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete on quality and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set uniformly or according to the principle of mutual recognition, can be used to increase welfare. The analysis...
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The Effects of Globalization on Worker Training
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We examine how globalization affects firms’ incentives to provide general worker training. We consider a three-stage game. In stage 1, firms invest in productivity-enhancing training. In stage 2, they can make wage offers for each others’ workers. Finally, Cournot competition takes place....
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The Incentives for Takeover in Oligopoly
Inderst, Roman; Wey, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
application is to compare takeover incentives in a differentiated Cournot and Bertrand oligopoly model with linear demand and …
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Vertical Product Differentiation, Quality Standards, and International Trade Policy
Lutz, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper studies the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete on quality and price in two segmented markets. Three alternative standard setting...
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