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Competition and innovation : the breakup of IG Farben
Poege, Felix - 2022
The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …
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Competing with asking prices
Lester, Benjamin; Visschers, Ludo; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2013
In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …
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Pay-what-you-want to support independent information : a field experiment on motivation
Casarico, Alessandra; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce.info to explore how to structure a campaign in a way...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481858
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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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