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Labour-market institutions and macroeconomic shocks
Chen, Yu-Fu; Snower, Dennis J.; Gylfi Zoega - 2002
Macroeconomic shocks and labour-market institutions jointly determine employment growth and economic performance. The effect of shocks depends on the nature of these intitutions and the effect of institutional change depends on the macroeconomic environment. It follows that a given set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412386
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The radical innovation investment decision refined
Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2013
We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non-marginal stochastic jump processes. From the model analytics we determine that the average magnitude and frequency of non-marginal stochastic jump processes are the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729702
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Firm-level heterogeneity and the decision to export : a real option approach
Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas; Bilkic, Natasa - 2013
In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose an alternative way to model whether firms export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730710
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Common ownership of competing firms: evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …
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Competition and subsequent risk-taking behaviour : heterogeneity across gender and outcomes
Filippin, Antonio; Gioia, Francesca - 2017
This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that … manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent monetary incentives. We find that competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664419
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Courtesy and idleness : gender differences in team work and team competition
Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta (contributor);  … - 2005
Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003248141
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Who bears the welfare costs of monopoly?the case of the credit card industry
Herkenhoff, Kyle; Raveendranathan, Gajendran - 2019
. Transitioning from 1970 to 2016 levels of competition yields welfare gains equivalent to a one-time transfer worth between 1.87 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147023
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Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010
Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm …, product market competition does not have an effect on firm-sponsored training. We conclude that increasing competition through …-sponsored training ; labor market frictions ; product market competition ; matched worker-firm data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975223
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Distributional effects of competition: a simulation approach
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418634
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Competitiveness and the gender gap among yung business professionals
Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2015
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...
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