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Bank Ownership and Credit over the Business Cycle : Is Lending by State Banks Less Procyclical?

Huizinga, Harry P.; Can Bertay, A.; Demirgüc-Kunt, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: This paper finds that lending by state banks is less procyclical than lending by private banks, especially in countries with good governance. Lending by state banks in high income countries is even countercyclical. On the liability side, state banks expand potentially unstable...

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Equilibrium and the Core in Alonso's Discrete Population Model of Land Use

ten Raa, Thijs; Berliant, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

Conventional wisdom tells us that with no market failure and local non-satiation of preferences, the core is at least as large as the collection of competitive equilibrium allocations.We con.rm this for a standard model featuring land.Next we consider the public land ownership version of the...

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Pay Enough - Or Don't Pay at All

Gneezy, U.; Rustichini, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

Abstract: Economics seems largely based on the assumption that monetary incentives improve performance. By contrast, a large literature in psychology, including a rich tradition of experimental work, claims just the opposite. In this paper we present and discuss a set of experiments designed to...

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Skill, Strategy and Passion : An Empirical Analysis of Soccer

Palomino, F.A.; Rigotti, L.; Rustichini, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

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Your Morals are Your Moods

Kirchsteiger, G.; Rigotti, L.; Rustichini, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

We test the effect of players' moods on their behavior in a gift-exchange game.In the first stage of the game, player 1 chooses a transfer to player 2.In the second stage, player 2 chooses an effort level.Higher effort is more costly for player 2, but it increases player 1's payoff.We say that...

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An Algorithm for the Nucleolus of Airport Profit Problems

Brânzei, R.; Inarra, E.; Tijs, S.H.; Zarzuelo, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

Airport profit games are a generalization of airport cost games as well as of bankruptcy games.In this paper we present … a simple algorithm to compute the nucleolus of airport profit games.In addition we prove that there exists an unique … consistent allocation rule in airport profit problems, and it coincides with the nucleolus of the associated TU game. …

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A New Way to Measure Competition

boone, jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

This paper introduces a new way to measure competition based on firms' profits.Within a general model, we derive conditions under which this measure is monotone in competition, where competition can be intensified both through a fall in entry barriers and through more aggressive interaction...

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Competition

boone, jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

Competition has been modelled in the literature in a number of ways.What do these different parametrizations of competition have in common?For instance, it turns out that it is not always the case that a rise in competition reduces price cost margins, industry wide profits or concentration.All...

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Perceived Organisational Support and Profitability

Graafland, Johan; Rutten, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

This paper investigates the impact of perceived organizational support (POS) on performance.We predict that POS will be reciprocated by positive discretionary employee behavior, which in turn has a positive impact on performance.Empirical research on a sample of Dutch construction companies...

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Procurement with Specialized Firms

boone, jan; Schottmuller, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

This paper analyzes optimal procurement mechanisms in a setting where the procurement agency has incomplete information concerning the firms’ cost functions and cares about quality as well as price. Low type firms are cheaper than high type firms in providing low quality but more expensive...

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