In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are …

We provide novel evidence on the effectiveness of mandated changes in Russian transparency and disclosure (henceforth T …

Does the introduction of corporate transparency and disclosure rules in emerging economies affect compliance, and … voluntary disclosure and find a significant increase in corporate disclosure among the domestic Russian firms over the period … 2003-07 when firms gradually adopted some but not all disclosure rules. The immediate effect of the introduction was a drop …

competition for principals or agents. While we do observe substantial and significant ratchet effects in the baseline (no … competition) case of our model, we find that ratchet behavior is nearly eliminated by labor-market competition; interestingly this … is true regardless of whether market conditions favor principals or agents. -- Ratchet effect ; competition ; experiment …

-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both … employers and employees. -- Job design ; high-performance work systems ; screening ; reputation ; competition ; trust ; control …

competition between agents but also by the possibility to punish the principal via sabotage. …

earnings, gender, LGB identity, coupling status, and the disclosure of sexual orientation in English National Health Service … to heterosexuals. The latter is due to similar-sized offsetting effects from disclosure on LGB pay relative to comparable … heterosexuals. Amongst LGB employees, disclosure is associated with 13% more pay, with three quarters of this gap related to …