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How Lotteries in School Choice Help to Level the Playing Field

Basteck, Christian; Klaus, Bettina; Kübler, Dorothea - 2018

The use of lotteries is advocated to desegregate schools. We study lottery quotas embedded in the two most common school choice mechanisms, namely deferred and immediate acceptance mechanisms. Some seats are allocated based on merit (e.g., grades) and some based on lottery draws. We focus on the...

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Does relative performance information lower group morale?

Heursen, Lea - 2019

information on a task that is relevant for their social image or selfimage, a general knowledge test. I measure how this affects … the subsequent willingness to help the productivity of others by sharing knowledge with them at a personal cost. I find …

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Confidence and career choices: An experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...

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Startup innovation during the past economic crisis

Abou Lebdi, Nabil; Hussinger, Katrin - 2016

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The Capital Gains Tax: A Curse but Also a Blessing for Venture Capital Investment

Bock, Carolin; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

Our study analyzes the effect of the capital gains tax on the individual investment decisions of venture capitalists. By doing so, we are able to study the decisions for a sample of 76,852 funding rounds in 32 countries from 2000 to 2012. Our results support the predictions of the theoretical...

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Public innovation in Brazil: An overview of its types,results and drivers

Cavalcante, Pedro; Camões, Marizaura - 2017

lack of evidence-based knowledge regarding different dimensions of innovation prevails. One important dimension that must … transactional costs. In that sense, many have argued that innovation can contribute to improve the public service quality and … consensus about the increase of management innovation practices over the last two decades. However, as in other countries, the …

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Entry and Innovation in Vertically Differentiated Markets

Bergemann, Dirk; Valimaki, Juuso - 1999

with a currently inferior product opts for a large but risky innovation, whereas a currently superior product chooses a … smaller but certain innovation. …

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Does Licensing Resolve Hold Up in the Patent Thicket?

Siebert, Ralph; von Graevenitz, Georg - 2008

In a patent thicket licensing provides a mechanism to either avoid or resolve hold up. We study the choice between ex ante licensing to avoid hold up and ex post licensing to resolve it. Firms’ choice of licensing contract is studied in the context of a patent portfolio race. We show that high...

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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

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What Inspires Leisure Time Invention?

Davis, Lee N.; Davis, Jerome; Hoisl, Karin - 2009

. Results suggest that the incidence of leisure time invention is positively related to exposure to a variety of knowledge …

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