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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor);  … - 2007
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms’ incentives to innovate and competitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571666
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518078
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170260
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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
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Human capital investment with competitive labor search
Kaas, Leo (contributor); Zink, Stefan (contributor) - 2008
We study human capital accumulation in an environment of competitive search. Given that unemployed workers can default on their education loans, skilled individuals with a larger debt burden prefer riskier but better paid careers than is socially desirable. A higher level of employment risk in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759353
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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?
Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor);  … - 2008
behaviour, particularly in tracked educational systems. -- Cooperation ; competition ; PISA ; student attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737643
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Worker self-selection and the profits from cooperation
Kosfeld, Michael (contributor);  … - 2008
We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort and types are private information. We show that there can exist a separating equilibrium in which workers self-select into different firms and firms employing cooperative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784391
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Labour and product market reforms : a case for policy complementarity
Amable, Bruno (contributor); Gatti, Donatella (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115431
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280790
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Self-selection and the efficiency of tournaments
Eriksson, Tor (contributor); Teyssier, Sabrina (contributor) - 2006
When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a high variance in performance (Bull, Schotter, and Weigelt 1987). However, since the efficiency of performance-related pay is attributable both to its incentive effect and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283430