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A cartel analysis of the German labor institutions and its implications for labor market reforms
Haucap, Justus (contributor); Pauly, Uwe (contributor);  … - 2006
system of collective bargaining between a single industry union and the industry's employers association. Our cartel analysis … establishment of a fully tariff-enabled union. Such an endeavor must go hand in hand with the institutionalization of a competition …
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Empiricism meets theory : is the Boone-Indicator applicable?
Schiersch, Alexander; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens - 2010
Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) with superior theoretical properties. However, the empirical applicability and robust-ness of the Boone-Indicator is still unknown. This paper aims to address that question. Using a rich, newly built,...
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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of … Great Britain, we find evidence for social custom effects in the determination of trade union membership in both countries … which restrict free-riding on union services. The impact of social custom effects tends to be independent of union density …
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Unionisation structures and innovation incentives
Haucap, Justus (contributor); Wey, Christian (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Structural unemployment and the output gap in Germany : evidence from an SVAR analysis within a hysteresis framework
Fritsche, Ulrich; Logeay, Camille - 2002
The German unemployment rate shows strong signs if non-stationarity over the course of the previous decades. This is in line with an insider-outsider model under full hysteresis. We applied a "theory-guided view" to the data using the structural VAR model as developed by Balmaseda, Dolado and...
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Collusive effects of a monopolist's use of an intermediary to deliver to retailers
Teichmann, Isabel; Schlippenbach, Vanessa von - 2014
A manufacturer contracting secretly with several downstream competitors faces an opportunism problem, preventing it from exerting its market power. In an infinitely repeated game, the opportunism problem can be relaxed. We show that the upstream firm's market power can be restored even further...
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Learning from data and network effects : the example of internet search
Schäfer, Maximilian; Sapi, Geza - 2020
The rise of dominant firms in data driven industries is often credited to their alleged data advantage. Empirical evidence lending support to this conjecture is surprisingly scarce. In this paper we document that data as an input into machine learning tasks display features that support the...
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Cartel stability and economic integration
Schröder, Philipp J. H. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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How communication makes the difference between a cartel and tacit collusion : a machine learning approach
Andres, Maximilian; Bruttel, Lisa Verena; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2022
This paper sheds new light on the role of communication for cartel formation. Using machine learning to evaluate free-form chat communication among firms in a laboratory experiment, we identify typical communication patterns for both explicit cartel formation and indirect attempts to collude...
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Collusive benchmark rates fixing
Boot, Nuria; Klein, Timo; Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter - 2017
The fixing of the Libor and Euribor benchmark rates has proven vulnerable to manipulation. Individual rate-setters may have incentives to fraudulently distort their submissions. For the contributing banks to collectively agree on the direction in which to rig the rate, however, their interests...
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