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Team Production in Competitive Labor Markets with Adverse Selection
von Siemens, Ferdinand; Kosfeld, Michael - 2014
Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and therefore on their colleagues' productivity. We study the...
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Infrastructure investment in network industries ; the role of incentive regulation and regulatory independence
Égert, Balázs - 2009
This paper finds that coherent regulatory policies can boost investment in network industries of OECD economies. Rate-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment. Yet, previous empirical work has...
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Voice at Work
Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...
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Vertical Control Change and Platform Organization under Network Externalities
Padilla, Jorge; Piccolo, Salvatore; Shekhar, Shiva - 2022
In this paper, we examine how the introduction of network externalities impact an open and vertically integrated platform's post-merger contractual relationship with third-party sellers distributing through its marketplace. Regardless of whether the platform uses linear contracts or two-part...
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Platform Competition and Information Sharing
Petropoulos, Georgios; Martens, Bertin; Parker, Geoffrey; … - 2023
competition between two platforms to study private and social incentives to share information. Sharing information can be welfare …
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Vertical Control Change and Platform Organization Under Network Externalities
Padilla, Jorge; Piccolo, Salvatore; Shekhar, Shiva - 2022
In this paper, we examine how the introduction of network externalities impact an open and vertically integrated platform’s post-merger contractual relationship with third-party sellers distributing through its marketplace. Regardless of whether the platform uses linear contracts or two-part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077333
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Driven by the Discount Factor: Impact of Mergers on Market Performance in the Semiconductor Industry
Harris, Jeremiah; Siebert, Ralph - 2015
This study investigates the impact of firm-specific discount factors on merger formation and market performance. We estimate firm-specific discount factors for 228 publicly traded and privately held firms operating in the semiconductor market and apply a heterogeneous treatment effects model...
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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily regulated due to its historically large contribution...
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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily regulated due to its historically large contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908663
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Advertising Competition in the Free-to-Air TV Broadcasting Industry
Ivaldi, Marc; Zhang, Jiekai - 2017
This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …
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