the coherence in strategic discourses is created through the practice of rhetoric. Specifically, we identify the concrete …

&D, advertising and the competitive environment.The empirical findings confirm the predictions of a dynamic model that complements … advertising in order to extract maximal rents; thus, lower costs of ads may favor R&D. …

Advertising competes for scarce consumer attention, so more profitable advertisers send more messages to break through …

trade interacts with this problem of market intransparency. Sellers must communicate their offers through costly advertising …

period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …

Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …

the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …

female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share …