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The dark side of competitive pressure
Cummins, Jason G.; Nyman, Ingmar - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001704223
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Individual Preferences, Organization, and Competition in a Model of R&D Incentive Provision
Lacetera, Nicola - 2011
provision of incentives to corporate scientists, in an environment where (1) scientists engage in multiple activities when …-monetary incentives; and (4) firms compete on the product market. We show that both the degree of knowledge spillovers and of market … competition affect the incentives given to scientists, and these effects interact. First, high knowledge spillovers lead firms to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125567
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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064451
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Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?
Giroud, Xavier - 2010
By reducing the threat of a hostile takeover, business combination (BC) laws weaken corporate governance and increase the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that while firms in non-competitive industries experience a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757546
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Strategic tournaments
Arad, Ayala; Rubinstein, Ariel - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 5 (2013) 4, pp. 31-54
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A Game Theoretic Foundation of Competitive Equilibria with Adverse Selection
Netzer, Nick - 2012
We construct a fully specified extensive form game that captures competitive markets with adverse selection. In particular, it allows firms to offer any finite set of contracts, so that cross-subsidization is not ruled out. Moreover, firms can withdraw from the market after initial contract...
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A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts
Green, Jerry; Stokey, Nancy L. - 2021
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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Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments
Brown, Jennifer - 2015
We consider how past, current, and future competition within an elimination tournament affect the probability that the stronger player wins. We present a two-stage model that yields the following main results: (1) a shadow effect--the stronger the expected future competitor, the lower the...
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How does the market use citation data? : the Hirsch index of economics
Ellison, Glenn - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 5 (2013) 3, pp. 63-90
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Details matter : the impact of presentation and information on the take-up of financial incentives for retirement saving
Saez, Emmanuel - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 1 (2009) 1, pp. 204-228
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