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Grazzini, Lisa - 2011

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching …

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Competition and Trust : Evidence from German Car Manufacturers

Felli, Leonardo - 2011

We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...

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Emotions in Litigation Contests

Baumann, Florian - 2011

This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...

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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

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Bank Competition, Asset Allocations and Risk of Failure : An Empirical Investigation

Boyd, John H. - 2010

This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … risk and asset allocations. Recent work (Boyd, De Nicolò and Jalal, 2009, BDNJ henceforth) predicts that as competition in … of competition. We also find that as competition intensifies, borrower risk decreases and the loan-to-asset ratio …

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Competition in Funding Higher Education

Eckwert, Bernhard - 2012

that funding competition does not rectify the investment inefficiency nor will it improve pooling of individual income … competition and restricted participation yields the highest level of social welfare …

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A Nested Contest : Tullock Meets the All-Pay Auction

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2012

the contest is sufficiently asymmetric, then there is an equilibrium in pure strategies. In this equilibrium, individual …

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Competition between Content Distributors in Two-Sided Markets

Bergh, Harald - 2012

We analyze strategic interactions between two competing distributors of an independent TV channel. Consistent with most of the relevant markets, we assume that the distributors set end-user prices while the TV channel sets advertising prices. Within this framework we show that the distributors...

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Differential Prize Taxation and Structural Discrimination in Contests

Mealem, Yosef - 2012

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...

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Expectations as Reference Points : Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment

Bartling, Björn - 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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