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A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015

This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2007

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...

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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); … - 2005

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative …

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Politico-economic causes of labor regulation in the United States : rent seeking, alliances, raising Rivals' costs (even lowering one's own?), and interjurisdictional competition

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2006

review, and interjurisdictional competition as well as the implications of union decline. Our analysis should help dispel any …

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Competition vs. monopoly in the religious marketplace : Judaism in the United States and Israel

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2013

religion. The "New Paradigm" views separation of Church and State, leading to competition in the religious marketplace, as …. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly … structure. -- religion ; religious marketplace ; new paradigm ; monopoly ; competition ; Judaism …

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The impact of immigration on the educational attainment of natives

Hunt, Jennifer - 2012

Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources with native children, lowering the return to native education and discouraging...

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Performance pay, competitiveness, and the gender wage gap : evidence from the United States

McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter; Pan, Jessica - 2014

Evidence that women are less likely to opt into competitive compensation schemes in the laboratory has generated speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage gap. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97, we show that women are less likely to be employed in...

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Are competitors forward looking in strategic interactions? : evidence from the field

Lackner, Mario; Stracke, Rudi; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2015

This paper investigates empirically whether decision makers are forward looking in dynamic strategic interactions. In particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values and the ability of their immediate opponent into...

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Discrimination as a competitive device : the case of local television news

Myers, Caitlin K. (contributor) - 2005

Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered information on television stations in 25 U.S. markets to examine the decisions of competing firms...

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