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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015
Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....
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Where to look for the morals in markets?
Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
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Tracking when ranking matters
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...
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Product market competition, creative destruction and innovation
Griffith, Rachel; Van Reenen, John - 2021
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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers
Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019
We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring … spatially differentiated competition is characterized by sorting, crowding-in, and an absence of spillovers: Donors sort …
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Monetary policy, product market competition and growth
Aghion, Philippe; Farhi, Emmanuel; Kharroubi, Enisse - 2018
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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Pfister, Annika - 2017
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent … of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training … except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U …
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Efficiency in large markets with firm heterogeneity
Dhingra, Swati; Morrow, John - 2017
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The persistent effect of competition on prosociality
Kosse, Fabian; Rajan, Ranjita; Tincani, Michela M. - 2023
We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the … competition period. 4-year follow-up data indicate that the effect persists and generalizes, suggesting a change in traits and not …
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The persistent effect of competition on prosociality
Kosse, Fabian; Rajan, Ranjita; Tincani, Michela M. - 2023
We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the … competition period. 4-year follow-up data indicate that the effect persists and generalizes, suggesting a change in traits and not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428113