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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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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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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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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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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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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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