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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: the role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
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Confronting Objections to Performance Pay: A Study of the Impact of Individual and Gain-sharing Incentives on the Job Satisfaction of British Employees
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodossiou, Ioannis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
effect on intrinsic job satisfaction (JS), job security and employee morale. This study explores the impact of pay incentives …
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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms
Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Using a matched employer-employee database for Italy we look at the spatial distribution of wages across provinces. This rich database allows us to contribute at opening the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of the interaction among economic agents, both...
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L’efficienza del sistema bancario italiano dal 2006 al 2010. Un’applicazione delle frontiere stocastiche.
Bonanno, Graziella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The objective of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the Italian Banking System over the period 2006-2010. By applying the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) to a panel of 700 banks, the analysis is based on the joint estimation of a cost function and an efficiency equation (Battese and...
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“Matching Auctions” for Hostile Takeovers: A Model with Endogenous Target
Rosato, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper we analyze incentives for a potential entrant to get into an oligopolistic Cournot-like market by taking …
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Does the Future of the Indian Public Sector Banks lie in Mergers and Acquisitions?
Mallick, Indrajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
strategies of mergers and acquisitions. …
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An empirical analysis of the counterfactual: a merger and divestiture in the Australian cigarette industry
Pham, Vivienne; Prentice, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
to assess the welfare implications of proposed mergers and partial divestitures. …
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Mergers in Two-Sided Markets: An Application to the Canadian Newspaper Industry
Chandra, Ambarish; Collard-Wexler, Allan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper we study mergers in two-sided industries. While mergers have been studied extensively in traditional … examining mergers in these markets. We present a model that shows that mergers in two-sided markets may not necessarily lead to … higher prices for either side of the market. We test our conclusions by examining a spate of mergers in the Canadian …
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Effect of mergerson efficiency and productivity: Some evidence for banks in Malaysia
Radam, Alias; Baharom, A.H.; Dayang-Afizzah, A.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study is undertaken to investigate the extent to which mergers lead to efficiency by which services are provided …
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Mergers & Acquisitions: A snapshot of a SPECIAL pre and post M&A process.
Jones, Kevin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Imagine that you have reached the pinnacle of your career, and you are sitting in the driver’s seat of a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Business is good, sales are up, and the stock market responds to your company’s performance. In such circumstances, a chief executive officer (CEO) may...
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