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Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2023

A large empirical literature in behavioral economics investigates heterogeneity across individuals and groups in preferences for competition. In this study, we provide a more detailed view on competitiveness by differentiating between four different motivations for entering competitions -...

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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes

Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022

Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...

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Business networks and crisis performance : professional, political, and family ties

Carney, Richard W.; Child, Travers Barclay - 2015

, political, and family networks for 1,290 large East Asian firms. We find that professional networks buoyed performance during … the 2008 financial crisis; political and family networks did not. We provide evidence that information access is a key … mechanism underlying the effect of professional networks. A one standard deviation improvement to a firm's professional network …

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Radical innovation and network evolution

Phlippen, Sandra; Riccaboni, Massimo - 2007

This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm R&D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest...

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When clusters become networks

Phlippen, Sandra; Knaap, G. A. van der - 2007

become networks of strategic collaboration and others don’t, we study link formation within European biopharmaceutical …

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Pricing, capacity and long-run cost functions for first-best and second-best network problems

Verhoef, Erik T.; Koh, Andrew Toon Meng; Shepherd, Simon - 2008

This paper considers the use of ‘long-run cost functions’ for congested networks in solving second-best network …

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High-speed rail & air transport competition

Adler, Nicole; Nash, Chris; Pels, Eric - 2008

European Union countries, specifically analyzing four of the prioritized Trans-European Networks. …

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Market knowledge : evidence from importers

Erbahar, Aksel - 2017

Previous firm-level literature established that there are substantial costs of entry into new export markets. Chaney (2014) opens the black-box of entry costs by building a dynamic network model of international trade where firms acquire customers in new destinations through their existing...

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Second-best congestion pricing in general static transportation networks with elastic demand

Verhoef, Erik T. - 1998

second-best taxrule for this problem is derived for general static networks, so thatthe solution presented is valid for any … 'virtual links', the analysis can be applied rather easilyalso to a broader class of second-best problems in static networks. …

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Product differentiation on roads : second-best congestion pricing with heterogeneity under public and private ownership

Verhoef, Erik T.; Small, Kenneth A. - 1999 - This version: 12/08/99

We explore the properties of various types of public and private pricing on acongested road network with heterogeneous users and allowing for elasticdemand. Heterogeneity is represented by a continuum of values of time. Thenetwork consists of both serial and parallel links, which allows us to...

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