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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms: Does liberalization matter?

Forlani, Emanuele - 2010

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment

Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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Trust, Investment and Competition : Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo - 2019

quality - but also with more competition among suppliers. Both associations hold only for parts involving comparatively … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …

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Incomplete property rights and overinvestment

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009

I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the...

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …

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Product market competition, investment and employment-abundant versus job-poor growth : a real options perspective

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2005

The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received much attention amongst academics. The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the channels through which cross-market effects come about and to assess their policy relevance. The...

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Trade openness, market competition, and inflation: Some sectoral evidence from OECD countries

Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S. - 2011

This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …

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Mobility and conflict

Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2012

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the right to allocate societys resources, and we allow for costly intergroup mobility. The winning group offers an allocation, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and...

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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael A. - 2012

This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...

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A nested contest: Tullock meets the all-pay auction

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2012

I present a two-player nested contest which is a convex combination of two widely studied contests: the Tullock (lottery) contest and the all-pay auction. A Nash equilibrium exists for all parameters of the nested contest. If and only if the contest is sufficiently asymmetric, then there is an...

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