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A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts

Green, Jerry R. - 1982

Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agents' output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is common to all the agents. The...

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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?

Casey, Brendan J. - 2020

in the United States, we specify a flexible model to capture competition between a plant in a state with carbon pricing …

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The Effects of Government-Sponsored Venture Capital : International Evidence

Brander, James A. - 2010

This paper examines the impact of government-sponsored venture capitalists (GVCs) on the success of enterprises. Using international enterprise-level data, we identify a surprising non-monotonicity in the effect of GVC on the likelihood of exit via initial public offerings (IPOs) or third party...

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Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education?

Adams, James D. - 2009

The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate students, the broadening of access to universities, and the development of military research and high technology industry. Since the 1980s, however, growth of scientific research in...

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Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital : Canadian Evidence

Brander, James A. - 2008

public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods …

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Product Variety and Demand Uncertainty

Carlton, Dennis W. - 2004

We show that demand uncertainty leads to vertical product differentiation even when consumers are homogeneous. When a firm anticipates that its inventory or capacity may not be fully utilized, product variety can reduce its expected costs of excess capacity. When the firm offers a continuum of...

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Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry

Faccio, Mara - 2017

We study how political factors shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation … competition. Government intervention has large redistributive effects: U.S. consumers would gain $65bn a year if U.S. mobile …

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Are Chinese Markets for Manufactured Products More Competitive than in the US? : A Comparison of China -US Industrial Concentration Ratios

Wang, Jun - 2014

We present estimates of 4 and 8 firm concentration ratios by industry and in weighted aggregate form for the manufacturing sector for Chinese enterprises for 2002 and 2007. These are then compared to available estimates for the same years and industrial classification for the US. These...

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Work Environment and Individual Background : Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm

Ichino, Andrea - 1999

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional …

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Will the U.S. Bank Recapitalization Succeed? Eight Lessons from Japan

Hoshi, Takeo - 2008

During the financial crisis that started in 2007, the U.S. government has used a variety of tools to try to rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990s. There are also a surprising number of other...

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