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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data

Sunde, Uwe - 2003

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …

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Democratization, violent social conflicts, and growth

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the Third Wave, we find evidence that the effect of democratization is weaker than reported...

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Human capital and growth: Specification matters

Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, Thomas - 2011

This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

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Disaggregate Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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Estimations of Occupational and Regional Matching Efficiencies Using Stochastic Production Frontier Models

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

By applying a stochastic production frontier approach to the matching process of unemployed and vacancies, this paper provides novel detailed insights into the process of job creation. For different labor markets as defined by occupation and region, the methodology produces estimates of the...

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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is highlighted in several dimensions. We test for spatial …

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Real and nominal wage rigidities and the rate of inflation : evidence from West German micro data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - 2003

The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997, is generated by simultaneous processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and...

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