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Works councils and the productivity impact of direct employee participation
Zwick, Thomas - 2003
This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...
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Productivity and distribution effects of codetermination in an efficient bargaining
Kraft, Kornelius - 2017
Codetermination can be regarded as an extreme regulatory intervention of the legislator in the labor market which might … German data and includes years before and after the extension of German codetermination law in 1976. The estimates determine … the productivity of labor and relative bargaining power of capital and labor. It turns out that codetermination does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738981
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Effektive Steuerbelastungen bei Vorliegen ökonomischer Renten
Schreiber, Ulrich; Spengel, Christoph; Lammersen, Lothar - 2001
Die Messung der effektiven Steuerbelastung rentabler Investitionen ist mit zahlreichen methodischen Problemen verbunden. Diese lassen sich zum Teil mit einem auf Devereux und Griffith zurückgehenden Modell überwinden. Basierend auf ihrem Ansatz wird eine Maßgröße für die effektive...
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Registered cartels in Austria : an overview
Fink, Nikolaus; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2015 - This version: 16 November 2015
Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country’s EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material on registered horizontal cartels to learn about their inner working. Applying content analysis to legally binding cartel contracts, we comprehensively document different...
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Registered cartels in Austria : coding protocol
Fink, Nikolaus; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2014
In the period following WW II. until the country accessed the European Union, cartels were legalized in Austria, upon registration with the Austrian Cartel Court. We obtained access to the registration data, and scanned them all towards a microeconomic analysis of contracting behavior between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458226
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Competition, collusion and spatial sales patterns : theory and evidence
Hunold, Matthias; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017
Germany, we provide empirical evidence in support of this result. Controlling for other potentially confounding factors, such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724001
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Minority share acquisitions and collusion : evidence from the introduction of national leniency programs
Heim, Sven; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017
There is a growing concern that minority shareholding (MS) in rival firms may facilitate collusion. To examine this concern, we exploit the fact that leniency programs (LPs) are generally recognized as a shock that destabilizes collusive agreements and study the effect that the introduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730845
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Competition, collusion and spatial sales patterns : theory and evidence
Hunold, Matthias; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017 - This version: December 31, 2017
Germany, we provide empirical evidence in support of this result. Controlling for other potentially confounding factors, such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778632
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Information exchange through non-binding advance price announcements : an antitrust analysis
Boshoff, Willem H.; Frübing, Stefan; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015
We study the welfare effects of non-binding advance price announcements. Applying a differentiated Bertrand model with horizontal products and asymmetric information, we find that such announcements can help firms to gain information on each other thereby allowing them to achieve higher profits....
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Backwards integration and strategic delegation
Hunold, Matthias; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stahl, Konrad - 2012
We analyze the effects of downstream firms’ acquisition of pure cash flow rights in an efficient upstream supplier when all firms compete in prices. With an acquisition, downstream firms internalize the effects of their actions on their rivals’ sales. Double marginalization is enhanced....
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