the effects of governmental support for domestic plants on selection efficiency. -- Auction ; collective tournament …

in predicting whether or not an artwork sells at auction, (3) there is little supporting evidence for the widespread …

at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price … prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now" format, it is the buyer. Both formats are extensively used in online and … auction. …

In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …

data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …

one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment - the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries - allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …