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Corporate social responsibility by joint agreement
Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Treuren, Leonard - 2021
Industry-wide voluntary agreements are touted as a means for corporations to take more corporate social responsibility (CSR). We study what type of joint CSR agreement induces firms to increase CSR efforts in a model of oligopolistic competition with differentiated products. Consumers have a...
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Competitiveness, Social Inclusion and Sustainability in a Diverse European Union : Perspectives from Old and New Member States
Huber, Peter (ed.); Nerudová, Danuše (ed.);  … - 2016
This book brings together the work of researchers in Eastern and Western Europe, who analyze competitiveness, social exclusion and sustainability from a range of perspectives. It examines the key challenges faced by the EU in its efforts to establish a socially inclusive and greener path to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397778
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Booms, busts and behavioural heterogeneity in stock prices
Hommes, Cars H.; Veld, Daan in't - 2015 - This draft: July 2015
We empirically evaluate a behavioural model with boundedly rational traders who disagree about the persistence of deviations from the fundamental stock price. Fundamentalist traders believe in mean-reversion, while chartists extrapolate trends. Agents gradually switch between the two rules,...
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Global Price Fixing
Connor, John M. (contributor) - 2007
Describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. This book provides a picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing. It assesses whether antitrust enforcement by the European Union, the United States, and other countries...
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The pro-collusive effect of increasing the repose period for price fixing agreements
Hinloopen, Jeroen - 2005
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Competition, Innovation, and Antitrust : A Theory of Market Leaders and Its Policy Implications
Etro, Federico (contributor) - 2007
This book reviews recent progress in the theory of oligopoly and market leadership and provides new results on the … theory of Stackelberg competition and Nash competition with strategic investment under endogenous entry. These theories are …This book reviews recent progress in the theory of oligopoly and market leadership and provides new results on the …
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The trade-off between foreign direct investments and exports : the role of multiple dimensions of distance
Lankhuizen, Maureen; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003851203
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The trade-off between foreign direct investments and exports : the role of multiple dimensions of distance
Lankhuizen, Maureen; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, … - 2009
Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378320
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The monetary exchange rate model as a long-run phenomenon
Groen, Jan J. J. - 1998
Pure time series-based tests fail to find empirical support formonetary exchange rate models. In this paper we apply pooled timeseries estimation on a forward-looking monetary model, resulting inparameter estimates which are in compliance with the underlyingtheory. Based on a panel version of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299983
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
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