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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if … intuition, labor market competition does not destroy but may indeed foster within-firm cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703792
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Negative Externalities and Equilibrium Existence in Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection
von Siemens, Ferdinand; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976877
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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict
Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959704
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On the "Adverse Selection" of Organizations
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
implications of firm size and competition on the foundation of organizations are also addressed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822215
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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such … contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main … objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611307
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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and compare the implications of a centralized allocation process with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566744
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Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor’s support play a potentially important role for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761993
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Pregibit: A Family of Discrete Choice Models
Vijverberg, Chu-Ping C.; Vijverberg, Wim P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The pregibit discrete choice model is built on a distribution that allows symmetry or asymmetry and thick tails, thin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650606
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students Digital Skills in Peru
Bet, German; Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884229