. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities …, which are associated with investments in human capital. Schooling alters time costs and changes the variety of activities …

, Gibbons and Murphy (2002). -- aggregate welfare ; theory of the firm ; relational contracting ; firm heterogeneity …

qualitative nature of our findings is similar between Cournot and Bertrand competition, suggesting that our results are robust to … the mode of strategic behavior. -- outsourcing tax ; employment effects ; oligopolistic competition ; product …

Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given … satiation. This, despite that the social costs of innovation are second order compared to their social benefits. Multiple …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

role in keeping politicians accountable once they are in office. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not … limited to the first newspaper entering the market. -- newspapers ; media competition ; turnout ; political selection …

threat of low-wage competition from Central and Eastern European Countries is relatively high. In addition, firms paying … is high. -- minimum wage ; product market competition ; service sector …