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Good Rankings are Bad : Why Reliable Rankings Can Hurt Consumers
Bouton, Laurent - 2015
unbiased informative ranking. The existence of the ranking might affect the welfare of all consumers negatively. With rigid … prices, the ranking induced change in demand can be detrimental to all consumers in markets featuring rationing or … consumption externalities. With perfectly flexible prices, the ranking might increase firms' market power, and hence lead to …
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Inheritance and continuity in small family business during the early industrial revolution
Barker, Hannah; Ishizu, Mina - In: Business history 54 (2012) 2, pp. 227-244
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The professionalisation of selling and the transformation of a family business : Kenrick & Jefferson : 1878-1940
Paulson, David - In: Business history 62 (2020) 2, pp. 261-291
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Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows
Bombardini, Matilde - 2009
Is skill dispersion a source of comparative advantage? While it is established that a country's aggregate endowment of human capital is an important determinant of comparative advantage, this paper investigates whether the distribution of skills in the labor force can play a role in the...
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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms
Autor, David H. - 2017
The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
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Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals
Reuben, Ernesto - 2015
Using an incentivized measure of test for competition, this paper investigates whether this taste explains subsequent gender differences in earnings and industry choice in a sample of high-ability MBA graduates. We find that “competitive” individuals earn 9% more than their less competitive...
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Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation
Phillips, Gordon M. - 2010
We study how firms differ from their competitors using new time-varying measures of product differentiation based on text-based analysis of product descriptions from 50,673 firm 10-K statements filed yearly with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This year-by-year set of product...
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Global lobbies for a global economy : the creation of the Spanish Institute of Family Firms in international perspective
Fernández Pérez, Paloma; Puig Raposo, Núria - In: Business history 51 (2009) 5, pp. 712-733
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Family firms and managerial capitalism : the case of the international motor industry
Church, Roy - In: Business history 28 (1986) 2, pp. 165-180
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A family-owned publishing multinational : the Salvat company (1869 - 1988)
Moya, María Fernández - In: Business history 52 (2010) 3, pp. 453-470
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