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Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and Job Flows

Krause, M.U. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

The paper explores the relationship between job flows and wages in the U.S. manufacturing sector, where wage differentials for seemingly identical workers and job reallocation rates are shown to be negatively correlated across 3-digit industries.High wage industries have the lowest turnover of...

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Age, Wage and Productivity

van Ours, Jan; Stoeldraijer, L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...

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Competition and Mergers among Nonprofits

Prüfer, Jens - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

Should mergers among nonprofit organizations be regulated differently than mergers among for-profit firms? The relevant empirical literature is highly controversial, the theoretical literature is scarce. I analyze the question by modeling duopoly competition with quality-differentiated goods. I...

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Anti-takeover Provisions as a Source of Innovation and Value Creation

Humphery-Jenner, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

Managers are risk averse. Excessive risk-aversion can destroy shareholder wealth. A key source of risk is the threat of an opportunistic takeover designed to take advantage of depressed market prices. This is especially the case in innovative or hard-to-value (`HtV') companies whose price may be...

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Density and Strength of Ties in Innovation Networks : A Competence and Governance View

Nooteboom, B.; Gilsing, V.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

Taking into account both competence and governance issues, and six dimensions of tie strength, this article argues that …

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Governance of Clubs and Firms with Cultural Dimensions

Ruys, Pieter H.M.; van den Brink, J.R.; Semenov, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

of institutional features. An institutional approach is introduced that requires a cooperative governance to realize the … potential value-production by firms, or to realize the potential user-value by clubs. For each, a distinctive governance system … is introduced. The firm requires an implementation governance to activate the value-production capacities of its service …

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Adaptive build-up and breakdown of trust : An agent based computational approach

Gorobets, A.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This article employs Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) to investigate whether, and under what conditions, trust is viable in markets. The emergence and breakdown of trust is modeled in a context of multiple buyers and suppliers. Agents develop trust in a partner as a function of observed...

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Density and Strength of Ties in Innovation Networks : An Analysis of Multi-Media and Biotechnology

Gilsing, V.A.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

In this article we provide an empirical illustration of hypotheses, developed in the literature, on the role of density and strength of ties in innovation networks.We study both exploration and exploitation networks in the Dutch multimedia and pharmaceutical biotechnology industry.We find...

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Learning and Governance in Inter-Firm Relations

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations … relational risk are identified: hold-up and spillover risk.For the governance of relations, i.e. the control of relational risk …

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Decision Making in the Pension Fund Board Room : An Experiment with Dutch Pension Fund Trustees

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, K.; Koedijk, C.G.; Slager, A.M.H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

We ask how pension fund trustees deal with the booms and busts that funds encounter, and to what extent the decisions of pension fund trustees are affected by behavioral biases. We examine these issues by using a vignette-method field experiment among Dutch pension fund trustees. We find that...

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