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downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition …
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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model’s underlying mechanisms. …
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payoffs on cooperation, focussing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. Following Mengel (2018 … defectors and co-operators respectively, while an index of efficiency captures the gains from cooperation. We conduct two …’s material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material …
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Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample...
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous … variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull …
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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 …
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We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find …
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During the early 1990s Germany received over half a million Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many of these refugees, who were under temporary protection, had been repatriated. We exploit this historical episode to provide causal evidence on the role that migrants play explaining export...
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government management. Due to soft budget constraints of government management, PPPs exert more effort and therefore have a cost … bankruptcy costs. Consequently, if bankruptcy costs are high, PPPs may be less efficient than public management, although this …The paper compares provision of public infrastructure via public-private partnerships (PPPs) with provision under …
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We consider a public-private partnership in an infrastructure project, which requires specialised expertise during the construction stage for the infrastructure to operationalise. This entails that, after an investment is made to begin building the infrastructure, its construction is completed...
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