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Intellectual Property at the Firm-Level in the UK: The Oxford Firm-Level Intellectual Property Database

Helmers, Christian; Rogers, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

This paper provides an overview of a new database that contains intellectual property data - in the form of patents and trademarks - for the population of firms registered in the UK. The paper discusses the principal challenges involved in the construction of this integrated database and...

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Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks

Barr, Abigail; Attanasio, Orazio - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

Using data from a field experiment conducted in seventy Colombian municipalities, we investigate who pools risk with whom when risk pooling arrangements are not formally enforced. We explore the roles played by risk attitudes and network connections both theoretically and empirically. We...

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Human Capital and Competition: Strategic Complementarities in Firm-based Training

Stevens, Margaret - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Vocational training systems differ markedly between countries. A model of firm-based human capital investment predicts equilibria characterised by particular patterns of training and job-to-job mobility, consistent with observed cross-country differences. Incentives to invest in human capital...

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The Mainstream Niche

Foucart, Renaud - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

Consumption in the time of Internet is characterized by extremely low search costs, leading to increased product diversity (the long tail) and large mainstream products (superstars). In this paper, I show how the mainstream taste can be catered by a niche product, while minority tastes can be...

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Matching with Contracts: An Efficient Marriage Market?

Zeng, Chloe Qianzi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

matching market offerscontracts. I show that when expected marital surplus is strictly monotonic in agentsâ€™types, no … separating equilibrium that achieves matching efficiency exists. I then studya social plannerâ€™s problem, finding necessary and … sufficient conditions for a truthful directrevelation mechanism to achieve matching efficiency. These conditions become …

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Wage-Tenure Contracts in a Frictional Labour Market: Firms Strategies for Recruitment and Retention

Stevens, Margaret - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This paper analyses the contract-posting equilibrium in a general equilibrium matching model of the labour market with … efficient matching of workers to jobs. Contracts with a rising wage-tenure profile can be interpreted as a form of monopsonistic … efficiency of matching. …

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Does firm size really affect earnings?

Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

-competitive theories of bargaining and efficiency wages. …

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Dynamic Matching and Bargaining: The Role of Deadlines

Vulkan, Nir; Hurkens, Sjaak - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

matching protocol, but does not interfere with the bargaining, eliminates all delay. Even though this efficient centralized …

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Competition in Posted Prices With Stochastic Discounts

Gill, David; Thanassoulis, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

We study price competition between firms over public list or posted prices when a fraction of consumers (termed 'bargainers') can subsequently receive discounts with some probability. Such stochastic discounts are a feature of markets in which some consumers bargain explicitly; of markets in...

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Competition in Posted Prices With Bargaining

Gill, David; Thanassoulis, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

prices and increasingprofits. Welfare falls because of the uncertainty in the bargaining process, which generates …

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