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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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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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Khan, B. Zorina - 2017

Scholars engage in extensive debate about the role of families and corporations in economic growth. Some propose that personal ties provide a mechanism for overcoming such transactions costs as asymmetrical information, while others regard familial connections as conduits for inefficiency, with...

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Invisible Women : Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France During Early Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a higher risk of failure, and inefficiencies deriving from nepotism among family members, criticisms which are even greater when the company is handed over to a female relative....

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The Effects of Covid-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees

Alekseev, Georgij - 2020

We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...

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