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Competitive work environments and social preferences : field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); Seki, Erika (contributor) - 2005
as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … relationship to the local fishery and the fact that they all live in the same community), we argue that they are exposed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039639
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Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation
Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019
Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985950
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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices
Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022
We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368988
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013
control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771744
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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers
Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021
are also reflected in export performances and sales of innovative products. Our results go partially against other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517678
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Help in a foreign land : internationalized banks and firms' export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332105
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Underreporting of earnings and the minimum wage spike
Tonin, Mirco - 2011
This paper documents a positive correlation within European labour markets between the proportion of full-time employees with earnings on the minimum wage and the extent of underreporting of earnings in the economy. Using a simple model of a competitive labour market, I show how this correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380463
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Oil exports and the Iranian economy
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2009
This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909263
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Exports, imports and wages : evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009
The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931298
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The role of association agreements within European Union enlargement to Central and Eastern European countries
Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor);  … - 2007
modeling the effect of the association agreement on export performances between countries, and to quantify its impact. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590825