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Good Rankings are Bad : Why Reliable Rankings Can Hurt Consumers

Bouton, Laurent - 2015

unbiased informative ranking. The existence of the ranking might affect the welfare of all consumers negatively. With rigid … prices, the ranking induced change in demand can be detrimental to all consumers in markets featuring rationing or … consumption externalities. With perfectly flexible prices, the ranking might increase firms' market power, and hence lead to …

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Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows

Bombardini, Matilde - 2009

Is skill dispersion a source of comparative advantage? While it is established that a country's aggregate endowment of human capital is an important determinant of comparative advantage, this paper investigates whether the distribution of skills in the labor force can play a role in the...

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Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals

Reuben, Ernesto - 2015

Using an incentivized measure of test for competition, this paper investigates whether this taste explains subsequent gender differences in earnings and industry choice in a sample of high-ability MBA graduates. We find that “competitive” individuals earn 9% more than their less competitive...

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Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation

Phillips, Gordon M. - 2010

We study how firms differ from their competitors using new time-varying measures of product differentiation based on text-based analysis of product descriptions from 50,673 firm 10-K statements filed yearly with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This year-by-year set of product...

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Stiftung und Konflikt : Ausgestaltung, Familienbezogenheit und Konfliktpotenzial in Deutschland

Kaufmann, Guido - 2021

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The Power of Communicating the Family Firm Status : The Positive Effect of Family Firms as a Brand on Consumer Buying Behavior and Consumer Happiness

Rosina, Margarete - 2018

Margarete Rosina investigates whether it makes sense for family firms to communicate their family firm status to consumers. To do so, she conducts two experimental studies using a sample of 349 consumers. Using a branding perspective, the first study looks at whether consumers perceive family...

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Stiftung und Konflikt : Ausgestaltung, Familienbezogenheit und Konfliktpotenzial in Deutschland

Kaufmann, Guido - 2021

Einleitung -- Rechtliche und ökonomische Grundlagen -- Deutsche Stiftungen mit Unternehmensbezug -- Systematische Literaturanalyse und Modell -- Experteninterviews -- Diskussion und Ausblick -- Literaturverzeichnis.

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Khan, B. Zorina - 2017

Scholars engage in extensive debate about the role of families and corporations in economic growth. Some propose that personal ties provide a mechanism for overcoming such transactions costs as asymmetrical information, while others regard familial connections as conduits for inefficiency, with...

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Innovationsfähigkeit und Entrepreneurial Orientation in Familienunternehmen : Der Familieneinfluss und die Rolle des Familienunternehmers

Halder, Annika - 2016 - 1. Aufl. 2016

Annika Halder zeigt, dass der Einfluss von Familienmitgliedern und die Persönlichkeit des Familienunternehmers entscheidend für die unternehmerische Ausrichtung und die Innovationsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens sind. Dabei berücksichtigt sie erstmals auch Familienmitglieder, die nicht im...

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Invisible Women : Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France During Early Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a higher risk of failure, and inefficiencies deriving from nepotism among family members, criticisms which are even greater when the company is handed over to a female relative....

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