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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Markussen, Thomas - 2012

The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...

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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2014

Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers engaged in a contest. To examine this potential...

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Competing with Asking Prices

Lester, Benjamin R. - 2013

In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...

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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies

Pflüger, Michael - 2009

Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different … the government incentive to impact on entry costs, and how entry subsidies can be used strategically in open economies. We … firms where government subsidizes entry of domestic entrepreneurs. Under autarky the entry subsidy indirectly corrects for …

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Entry, Exit and Productivity : Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more …

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Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers : Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018

We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become self-employed in some occupations. Using longitudinal social security data, we implement a matched difference-in-differences design with entropy balancing to account for...

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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021

We develop a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our …

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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021

, and later in transition entry and domestic competitive pressure increases. In finance, the increasing reliance on retained …

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Competition and Hospital Quality : Evidence from a French Natural Experiment

Gobillon, Laurent - 2017

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital quality measured with the mortality of heart-attack patients. Our analysis distinguishes between hospitals depending on their status: public (university or non-teaching),...

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