. -- All-pay auctions ; charity ; complete information ; externalities …

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 effects of such externalities in a competitive labor market if workers …-efficient separation of workers according to their productivity. We further find that externalities facilitate equilibrium existence, where …

firms compete in all-pay auctions with complete information, silent shareholdings introduce asymmetric externalities …

Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …

efficient technology even in the absence of taxation. When taxation is necessary for innovation, both types of taxes are … effective. However, the energy tax outperforms the emission tax in terms of innovation incentives. …

We scrutinize the scope of auctions in the presence of downstream interactions and information externalities by using …