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Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment
Cabrales, Antonio; Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational …We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … inefficiencies remain. In contrast, when agents compete to be hired, efficiency improves dramatically, and it increases in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703707
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822655
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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms’ efforts to raise their … into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703100
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884338
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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268877
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Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?
Gerdes, Christer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265645
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Does Secondary School Tracking Affect Performance? Evidence from IALS
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There is substantial cross-country variation in secondary school design, with some countries tracking students into different ability schools very early, and other countries with little or no tracking at all. Does tracking length affects school performance, as measured by standardized test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233754
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On-The-Job Search and Sorting
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with monopsonistic wage setting yields too many vacancies and hence too low unemployment compared to first best....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233771
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Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?
Pearson, Mark; Martin, John P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
, there is some reason hope that private provision might promote microeconomic efficiency and services which are more … choice and innovation. Second, however, efficiency gains have often been limited. This is due to a number of inter … competition. (d) The fiscal incentives necessary to stimulate private provision are high, and have welfare costs of their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233830
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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, António Gomes de; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233852