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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to … identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on training participation, and the effect of training participation on … wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …

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Vaporware

Levy, Stephan M. - EconWPA - 1995

This essay explores why firms would want to practice vaporware -- the issuance of intentionally false product announcements. In my model, a firm is able to release an upgraded version of its original product. However, consumers do not know the date at which the upgrade will first become...

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Negotiation and Merger Remedies: Some Problems

Farrell, Joseph - EconWPA - 2004

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ames and Information, Third Edition, Preface

Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

I am revising my game theory book, which is due at the publisher's September 1, 1999. This is the preface, which discusses changes I have made.

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functorial fixed points

vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2002

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The implications of tipping for economics and management

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

Tipping is a phenomenon that illustrates the importance of social norms and psychological reasons in motivating economic behavior. People tip because this is the social norm and disobeying norms results in psychological disutility. Tipping is also economically important: in the United States...

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Irrationality in Consumers’ Switching Decisions: When More Firms May Mean Less Benefit

Wilson, Chris M.; Price, Catherine Waddams - EconWPA - 2005

We report evidence of three types of consumer switching decision errors within the UK electricity market. We identify consumers who do not switch despite substantial available savings, consumers who switch from a cheaper to a more expensive supplier and consumers who switch to a cheaper, but not...

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rules for changing the rules

vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2002

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Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Graham, Stuart J. H.; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - EconWPA - 2004

The recent surge in U.S. patenting and expansion of patentable subject matter has increased patent office backlogs and raised concerns that in some cases patents of insufficient quality or with inadequate search of prior art are being issued. At the same time patent litigation and its costs are...

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The Games and Information Reader, Preface

Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

I am putting together a collection of clippings, journal articles, and original material to accompany my game theory book. It is due at the publisher's September 1, 1999. This is the preface, in which I explain my choice of items to include.

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