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Business Strategy and Firm Reorganization under Changing Market Conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2009
This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
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Work Organization, Wage Pressure in the Secondary Labor Market, and the Green Card
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2001
Two trends have marked the politico-economic discussion in many industrialized countries in recent years. On the one hand, international production, workplace decentralization, shareholder orientation and generous manager remuneration have changed the face of firms in the primary economy. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196278
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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment: A Tale of Two "Continents"
Malley, Jim; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2000
In contrast to much recent work regarding the causes of European unemployment, in this paper, we emphasise the importance of capital accumulation. But unlike the few previous studies which have examined the relationship between capital accumulation and unemployment, we argue that what matters...
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On the Choice of Royalty Rule to Cover Fixed Costs in Input Joint Ventures
Fjell, Kenneth; Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle - CESifo - 2013
incorporated. We find that tougher competition between the JV partners may actually increase channel profit under such a scheme. We …
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Competition in the Presence of Individual Demand Uncertainty
Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - CESifo - 2013
This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …
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Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...
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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to Seek Further Challenges
Buser, Thomas - CESifo - 2014
of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
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