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Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field
Lackner, Mario - 2015
This paper investigates empirically whether decision makers are forward looking in dynamic strategic interactions. In particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values and the ability of their immediate opponent into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009502
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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Brown, J. David - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765295
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Human Capital Persistence and Development
Rocha, Rudi - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016395
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Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany
Heywood, John S. - 2017
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent … of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training … except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U …
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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition : Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
de Haan, Monique - 2011
context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129092
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
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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 …
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Performance-Related Funding of Universities : Does More Competition Lead to Grade Inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118471
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Add-On Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Kosfeld, Michael - 2011
pricing strategy of firms. Educating consumers may do more harm than good and should thus only be considered if the regulator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118774
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Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition Among University Students
Bigoni, Maria - 2011
characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces …
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