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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2019
A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892304
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Pricing by International Airline Alliances : A Retrospective Study Using Supplementary Foreign-Carrier Fare Data
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2019
This study provides further empirical evidence on pricing by international airline alliances. The paper covers a long sample period, which runs from 1997 to 2016, and it supplements the usual USDOT fare data with confidential fare data reported by the foreign alliance partners of US carriers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866395
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Control Aversion in Hierarchies
De Chiara, Alessandro; Engl, Florian; Herz, Holger; … - 2022
Companies typically control various aspects of their workers’ behaviors. In this paper, we investigate whether the … hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers’ ensuing reaction. In particular …, we test, in a laboratory experiment, whether potential negative behavioral reactions to imposed control are larger when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082243
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Carve-outs under airline antitrust immunity
Brueckner, Jan Keith; Proost, Stef - 2009
This paper offers the first formal economic analysis of carve-outs under airline antitrust im- munity. Carve-outs are designed to limit the potential anticompetitive effects of cooperation by alliance partners in hub-to-hub markets, where they provide overlapping nonstop service. While the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271860
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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316984
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Bribery vs. Extortion : Allowing the Lesser of Two Evils
Khalil, Fahad; Lawarree, Jacques P.; Yun, Sungho - 2021
Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work in forging information, we present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317102
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Airline Alliances and Service Quality
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2018
Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908676
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Optimal monitoring to implement clean technologies when pollution is random
Macho-Stadler, Inés; Pérez-Castrillo, David - 2007
We analyze a model where firms chose a production technology which, together with some random event, determines the final emission level. We consider the coexistence of two alternative technologies: a "clean" technology, and a "dirty" technology. The environmental regulation is based on taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264107
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Bribery vs. extortion: allowing the lesser of two evils
Khalil, Fahad; Lawarrée, Jacques; Yun, Sungho - 2007
Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work in forging information, we present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264126
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Is the notification of monitoring a threat to the unemployed?: a regression discontinuity approach
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2007
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272741