shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition. Stakeholder firms are more (less) valuable than shareholder firms …

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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 …

. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition … after controlling for current Catholic shares. -- Private school competition ; student achievement ; Catholic schools …

We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference … that higher competition between villages reduces conflict but only up to moderate levels of competition. The conflict …-reducing effects of competition are largest in the most ethnically fractionalized and segregated villages and exist regardless of the …

, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to … IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …

Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. We study how … productivity of surviving workers. Moreover, it is specifically the firing of peers with whom workers had social connections …