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Certification as a Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism: Theory and Suggestive Evidence

Svitkova, Katarina; Ortmann, Andreas - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2006

particular solution of this problem, certification, where an independent agency provides a costly signal, a certificate, to … nonprofit. The assumptions of our model are derived from stylized facts that we distilled from certification systems currently … literature on certification and provides results that are different from those reported up to now. …

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Prompted to Be Good: The Impact of Certification on the Quality of Charities

Svitkova, Katarina - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2007

In this study we model how certification affects managers’ choice of the quality of the nonprofit organizations they … charitable good, one donor, and a certification agency. We assume that the nature of the charitable good does not allow for …

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Fair Trade - Is It Really Fair?

Konecny, Tomas; Myslivecek, Jan - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2008

One of the arguments against the Fair Trade scheme is that the guaranteed minimum price tends to depress world prices and thus the incomes of non-participating farmers (e.g. The Economist, 2006). We develop a model that distinguishes between the impact of the introduction of a Fair Trade market...

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Comparing Certification and Self-regulation

Myslivecek, Jan - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2008

I compare certification and self-regulation, two widely used quality assurance mechanisms in markets where consumers do … not observe the quality of goods. Certification is a mechanism in which an external firm oers a certificate to producers … certification fee. Self-regulation is a mechanism in which a club of firms in the industry adhere (or not) to a self-imposed code of …

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Analysis of Electricity Industry Liberalization in Great Britain: How Did the Bidding Behavior of Electricity Producers Change?

Tashpulatov, Sherzod N. - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2010

Promoting competition among electricity producers is crucial for ensuring allocative efficiency and lower electricity prices. In this paper, I empirically examine the electricity market of England and Wales in order to analyze to what extent the regulatory reforms were successful in promoting...

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Mothers and Daughters: Heterogeneity of German Direct Investments in the Czech Republic

Munich, Daniel; Srholec, Martin; Moritz, Michael; … - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2012

Much has been written on the distinction between vertical and horizontal foreign direct investment. However, most of the empirical literature relies on indirect and aggregated measures only. The aim of this paper is to help fill this gap by examining the differences between German affiliates in...

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Pollution Control in a Transition Economy: Do Firms Face Economies and/or Diseconomies of Scale?

Earnhart, Dietrich; Lizal, Lubomir - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2010

We empirically assess whether firms face economies and/or diseconomies of scale with respect to air pollution control by evaluating the effects of production on firmlevel air emission levels using a panel of Czech firms during the country’s transitional period of 1993 to 1998. By estimating a...

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Three Prominent Tournament Formats: Predictive Power and Costs

Ryvkin, Dmitry; Ortmann, Andreas - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2006

We analyze tournaments of heterogeneous players from an organizer’s perspective. Using a simple model of a noisy tournament, we demonstrate how the likelihood of selecting the best player, here termed the “predictive power” of a tournament, depends on the tournament format, the...

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Corporate Philanthropy in the Czech and Slovak Republics

Svitkova, Katarina - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2006

This study explores the characteristics of corporate charitable behavior in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is the first quantitative study for transition economies, analyzing data from two surveys for 577 and 162 firms over three (2001-2003) and five (2001-2005) years in the Czech Republic,...

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The Predictive Power of Noisy Round-Robin Tournaments

Ryvkin, Dmitry; Ortmann, Andreas - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2004

The round-robin tournament format for N players is a scheme that matches players with one another in all possible N(N - 1)/2 pairwise comparisons. A noisy round-robin tournament adds the possibility of upsets, or noise, and hence reduces the power of the tournament to reveal the true ranking of...

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