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Risk-Taking Tournaments: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study risk-taking behavior in a simple two person tournament in a theoretical model as well as a laboratory experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow for all possible degrees of correlation between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822136
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822639
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822655
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Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214022
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Programa de Aplicación de los Principios Generales para los Mercados de Remesas de América Latina y el Caribe: Perú
Latinoamericanos, Centro de Estudios Monetarios; … - Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano … - 2010
Informe público final - Programa de aplicación de los principios generales para los mercados de remesas de América Latina y el Caribe - PERU
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Economic Integration and Manufacturing Performance in Mexico: Is Chinese Competition to Blame?
Córdova, José Ernesto López - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
In this paper we argue that recent trade policy in Mexico, despite some of its accomplishments in boosting Mexican exports over the last decade, might have distracted the country's attention from looking at the root causes that underlie Mexico's mixed manufacturing performance.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009206221
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Program for Application of General Principles for Latin American and Caribbean Remittance Markets: Guatemala
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2010
Guatemala - Final public report about the Program for application of general principles for Latin American and Caribbean remittance market
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216173
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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359868
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The Structure of Natural Gas Markets in Argentina and Antitrust Issues in Regional Energy Integration
Bondorevsky, Diego; Petrecolla, Diego - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the process of natural gas market integration in the Southern Cone of South America. More specifically, the paper examines infrastructure and performance of the sector in Argentina, the effects that this sector has had on overall regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291841
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Keeping the Lights On: Power Sector Reform in Latin America
Millán, Jaime; Fehr, Nils-Henrik M. von der; Ayala, Ulpiano - Inter-American Development Bank
Power sector reforms across Latin America in the 1990s based on privatization, liberalization, and market forces were largely unavoidable. This book argues that while there is no turning back from this process, many reforms may not prove sustainable without further efforts to build a stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772357