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-Douglas production function. …
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We consider firms and multi-member households operating in a competitive market environment. Households are endowed with resources (commodity bundles) and shares of firm ownership. Household members are characterized by individual preferences, possibly with intra-household consumption...
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pass-through the cost shock fully on their export prices. Their production, exports and employment fall. A consequence of … only firms able to adapt their production process to energy cost shocks have survived. Importantly, when faced with large …
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Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … this an interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over … patenting, and the relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting …
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This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging...
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This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …
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which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher … seller competition and limited consumer information. Fair behavior in the market is slightly lower than that measured in …
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Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can …
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competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …
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We show theoretically and empirically that executives are paid less for their own firm’s performance and more for their rivals’ performance if an industry’s firms are more commonly owned by the same set of investors. Higher common ownership also leads to higher unconditional total pay. We...
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