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Spatial Interactions
Kim, Jun; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2022
This paper studies how the strength of social ties are affected by the geographical location of other individuals and their social capital. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social capital. We show that lower travel costs increase not only the interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081945
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Interdependency in Performance
Haraguchi, Kelii H. - 2007
We empirically model performance in the final round of a multiple-round tournament as a spatially autoregressive process, allowing us to sign and quantify the endogenous interactions between competitors. Doing so speaks to significant regularities in the data that suggest that a player's own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776336
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Spatial Frictions
Behrens, Kristian - 2013
toughness of competition in cities? The short answers are: no; yes; and it depends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087411
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Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace : Judaism in the United States and Israel
Chiswick, Carmel U. - 2013
. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly … ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to grant monopoly power to an official state … religion. The "New Paradigm" views separation of Church and State, leading to competition in the religious marketplace, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087384
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Forecasting with Spatial Panel Data
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2009
This paper compares various forecasts using panel data with spatial error correlation. The true data generating process is assumed to be a simple error component regression model with spatial remainder disturbances of the autoregressive or moving average type. The best linear unbiased predictor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158526
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A Wage-Efficiency Spatial Model for US Self-Employed Workers
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2016
In this paper, we study self-employment in a theoretical setting derived from wage-efficiency spatial models, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001329
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The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets : Monopolistic Unions Versus Monopsonistic Employers
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2022
mitigate the negative wage and employment effects generated by imperfect competition. We also identify considerable effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243910
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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010
, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139040
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
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Anti-Lemons : School Reputation, Relative Diversity, and Educational Quality
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2012
can explain several puzzling findings in the economics of education, including the fact that competition can, but does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099769