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Targeted bidders in government tenders
Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M. - 2022
on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light …
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Demographics and the decline in firm entry : lessons from a life-cycle model
Röhe, Oke; Stähler, Nikolai - 2020
Since the mid-1970s, firm entry rates in the United States have declined significantly. This also holds for other OECD countries over the past years. At the same time, these economies experienced a gradual process of population aging. Applying a tractable life-cycle model with endogenous firm...
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Re-allocating taxing rights and minimum tax rates in international profit taxation
Kempkes, Gerhard; Stähler, Nikolai - 2021
What are the macroeconomic implications of re-allocating taxing rights away from source countries (where goods are produced) to market countries (where goods are consumed) and introducing minimum rates in international profit taxation? We assess this question in a dynamic macroeconomic model...
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Substitution elasticities between capital, labour, material, electricity and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors
Koschel, Henrike - 2000
In this paper, substitutional relationships between capital, labour, material, electricity, and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors are estimated using a translog cost function. Estimates are based on a pooled time-series cross-sectional data sample for the period 1978-90 and...
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Competition and incentives
Schmidt, Klaus M.; Fey, Lisa Magdalena; Thoma, Carmen - 2017 - This version: April 27, 2017
We report on two experiments that identify non-monetary incentive effects of competition. As the number of competitors …-monetary incentive effects of competition going in the opposite direction. In the experiments we change the number of competitors … comparisons as one potential mechanism for this effect. It shows that competition turns the effort decisions of competing managers …
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YouTube "Adpocalypse" : the Youtubers' journey from ad-based to patron-based revenues
Andres, Raphaela; Rossi, Michelangelo; Tremblay, Mark - 2023
In the past decade, the Creator Economy has witnessed unprecedented growth. This dynamic ecosystem thrives on a multi-sided business model, connecting content creators, users, and advertisers. However, matching the needs of different stakeholders is a complex challenge, as evidenced by the...
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The labor demand effects of refugee immigration : evidence from a natural experiment
Berbée, Paul; Brücker, Herbert; Garloff, Alfred; … - 2022
We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany … not change significantly which can be traced back to widespread labor market rigidities in Germany. The isolation of labor …-induced labor demand effect. For empirical identification we rely on the local presence of vacant military bases and on allocation …
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Do refugees impact crime? : causal evidence from large-scale refugee immigration to Germany
Lange, Martin; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2023
large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in 2015-2016. Arriving refugees were dispersed across the country …
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Der Einfluß der Grenznähe auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen : eine theoretische Analyse und empirische Befunde für Ostdeutschland
Engel, Dirk - 1999
This paper analyses the effects of the creation or removal of borders on firms' profits and their optimal location in an autarkic region. A firm chooses a position close to a border if a crucial degree of openness is achieved. Furthermore, the positive effect of removal of borders decreases in...
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Does R&D-Infrastructure attract high-tech start-ups?
Engel, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2000
Our research, based on the ZEW-Foundation Panel East, examines whether high-tech start-ups are mainly founded in scientific and infrastructural well suited regions or not. Estimation results on the level of postcode areas confirm the hypothesis that specific human capital, knowledge spillovers...
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