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Quantifying Artistic Success : Ranking French Painters - and Paintings - from Impressionism to Cubism

Galenson, David W. - 2020

For 35 leading painters who lived in France during the first century of modern art, this paper uses textbook illustrations as the basis for measuring the importance of both painters and individual paintings. The rankings pose an interesting puzzle: why do some of the greatest artists not produce...

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Good Rankings are Bad : Why Reliable Rankings Can Hurt Consumers

Bouton, Laurent - 2015

unbiased informative ranking. The existence of the ranking might affect the welfare of all consumers negatively. With rigid … prices, the ranking induced change in demand can be detrimental to all consumers in markets featuring rationing or … consumption externalities. With perfectly flexible prices, the ranking might increase firms' market power, and hence lead to …

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Measuring Masters and Masterpieces : French Rankings of French Painters and Paintings from Realism to Surrealism

Bruegel, Martin; Galenson, David W. - 2021

For 35 leading painters who worked in France during the first century of modern art, this paper uses illustrations in French textbooks as the basis for measuring the importance of both painters and individual paintings. The rankings closely resemble those obtained earlier from a similar analysis...

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Quantifying Artistic Success : Ranking French Painters - and Paintings - from Impressionism to Cubism

Galenson, David W. - 2021

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Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows

Bombardini, Matilde - 2009

Is skill dispersion a source of comparative advantage? While it is established that a country's aggregate endowment of human capital is an important determinant of comparative advantage, this paper investigates whether the distribution of skills in the labor force can play a role in the...

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Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals

Reuben, Ernesto - 2015

Using an incentivized measure of test for competition, this paper investigates whether this taste explains subsequent gender differences in earnings and industry choice in a sample of high-ability MBA graduates. We find that “competitive” individuals earn 9% more than their less competitive...

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Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2015

Institutions, social norms and the nature of industrial relations vary greatly between Latin American and Western European countries. Such institutional and organizational differences might shape firms operational environment in general and the type of competition in product and labor markets in...

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Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation

Phillips, Gordon M. - 2010

We study how firms differ from their competitors using new time-varying measures of product differentiation based on text-based analysis of product descriptions from 50,673 firm 10-K statements filed yearly with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This year-by-year set of product...

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Adoptive Expectations : Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms

Mehrotra, Vikas - 2011

The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing...

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Must Love Kill the Family Firm?

Mehrotra, Vikas - 2010

Family firms depend on a succession of capable heirs to stay afloat. If talent and IQ are inherited, this problem is mitigated. If, however, progeny talent and IQ display mean reversion (or worse), family firms are eventually doomed. This is the essence of the critique of family firms in...

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