Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 236
Cover Image
Sports league expansion and economic efficiency : Monopoly can enhance consumer welfare
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2003
This paper studies optimal sport league size. League expansion lowers average player quality, reducing fans utility in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404322
Cover Image
Genetic diversity and performance : evidence from football data
Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021
. In this paper, we assess empirically the connection between genetic diversity and the performance of sport teams …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597683
Cover Image
Sports clubs and populism : quasi-experimental evidence from German cities
Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023
Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013536201
Cover Image
Management practices, worker commitment, and workplace representation
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2020
management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while … establishments with better management practices and that, controlling for management practices and worker representation, the …, the evidence suggests that the selected management practices are likely to be favorable to performance in plants with and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223854
Cover Image
Complementarities of HRM practices : a case for employing multiple methods and integrating multiple fields
Englmaier, Florian; Schüßler, Katharina - 2015
differences across organizations by variation in the use of management practices. We focus on human resource management (HRM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492325
Cover Image
Old before their time : the role of employers in retirement decisions
Bello, Piera; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2015
Do elderly workers retire early voluntarily, or are they induced (or even forced) by their employees? To establish the relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the EU - the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA). A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406562
Cover Image
Cultural stereotypes of multinational banks
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2022
Using hand-collected data spanning more than a decade on European banks' sovereign debt portfolios, we show that the trust of residents of a bank's countries of operation in the residents of a potential target country of investment has a positive, statistically significant, and economically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463528
Cover Image
Globalisation and social spending
De Grauwe, Paul; Polan, Magdalena - 2003
We provide evidence indicating that countries with well-developed social security systems do not necessarily face a trade-off between social spending and competitiveness. On average, countries that spend a lot on social needs score well in the competitiveness league. We investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506440
Cover Image
Globalisation, competitive governments, and constitutional choice in Europe
Breton, Albert; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2002
The traditional school of economic policy analysis predicts that globalisation will give rise to predatory competition between the governments of the European nation states. The consequence is anticipated to be a marked reduction in, if not the destruction of, the benevolent Welfare State. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408984
Cover Image
Did partial globalization uncrease inequality? Did inequality stimulate globalization backlash? : the case of the Latin American periphery, 1950 - 80
Baten, Jörg - 2002
Inequality is an important threat to the globalization of the world economy that we experience today. This contribution … a globalization backlash . The closing of commodity and capital markets did always take place during or 5-10 years after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409375