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Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipasʹ, Igorʹ V.; … - 2006

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been limited. We hypothesize that private ownership will enhance company performance, measured in a...

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Does the use of worker flows improve the analysis of establishment turnover? : evidence from German administrative data

Hethey-Maier, Tanja; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013

Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...

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Price and saliency in health care: when can targeted nudges change behaviors?

Walker, Brigham - 2020

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …

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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival

Brown, J. David (contributor); … - 2009

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...

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Marketmaking middlemen

Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...

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Employment protection, product market competition and growth

Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

It is commonly argued that labor market institutions such as employment protection worsen an economy's performance and particularly so, if product markets become more competitive. Empirical evidence, however, has difficulties to detect a robust negative correlation between employment protection...

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Reciprocity and learning effects in price competition

Nese, Annamaria; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2023

One disputed topic in Organization and Management economics is how leadership and collusive agreements are set and maintained in industries where firms are characterised by similar technological opportunities and structures. This topic is particularly important to analyse online and digital...

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How do drug prices respond to a change from external to internal reference pricing? : evidence from a Danish regulatory reform

Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan J. - 2015

We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals … analyze three therapeutic classes with different treatment durations and show that the reform led to substantial price … decreases for our lifelong treatment and to less substantial price reductions for our medium duration treatment while we do not …

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"Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" auctions : effects of changing bargaining power in sequential trading mechanisms

Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2015

at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price …

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The quality-complementarity hypothesis : theory and evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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