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effect of private-school competition on students’ entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …
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Fiscal decentralization is high on the agenda in policy fora. This paper empirically investigates the underlying causes of fiscal decentralization, based on the predictions of a simple political economy model. We argue that the likeliness that a central government engages in devolution of powers...
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We consider dynamic competition among platforms in a market with network externalities. A platform that dominated the … the focal platform whenever such equilibrium exists. Yet when faced with higher-quality competition, can a low …
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While the old systems competition took place with closed borders, globalisation has brought about a new type of systems … competition that is driven by the mobility of factors of production. The new systems competition will likely imply the erosion of … induced the respective government activity in the first place. The new systems competition will force inefficient governments …
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This paper explores the effect of airline emissions charges on airfares, airline service quality, aircraft design … load factors, and raise aircraft fuel efficiency, while having no effect on aircraft size. Given that these adjustments …
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, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. …
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EMEs around the turn of the millennium, which signals increased competition and market contestability. …
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This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon … relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting, and the relationship …
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