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Brands and brand capital have long been theorized to play an important role in the formation of the industrial market structure of consumer goods industries. We summarize several striking empirical regularities in the concentration, magnitude and persistence of brand market shares in consumer...
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This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart's entry into Mexico on Mexican manufacturers of consumer goods. Guided by firm interviews that suggested substantial heterogeneity across firms in how they responded to Wal-Mart's entry, we develop a dynamic industry model in which firms decide whether...
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We present a detailed analysis of the incentives that Social Security provides for continued work at older ages. We do …
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of the typical American firm. Variable pay is usually touted as a way to provide incentives to managers whose interests …
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Incentive effects of pension systems are usually estimated under the assumption that the institutional environment provides a single optimal 'pathway' for retirement. However, many countries provide competing pathways which may include several early retirement options in addition to normal...
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underinvestment problem. We derive comparative static predictions for the equilibrium relationships between incentives from … compensation, investment, and firm performance for both cases. The relationship between firm performance and managerial incentives … to identify whether managers have private benefits or costs, we estimate the joint relationships between incentives and …
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In an earlier work, we analyzed how the legal rules governing contractual liability affect the transfer of information between the parties to the contract. In particular, we showed how limitations on contractual liability might lead high valuation buyers to reveal their valuation of performance,...
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This paper surveys the econometric evidence on the effectiveness of fiscal incentives for R&D. We describe the effects …
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This paper investigates the impact of financial incentive programs, which have become an increasingly common component of welfare programs. We review experimental evidence from several such programs. Financial incentive programs appear to increase work and raise income (lower poverty), but cost...
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Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, empirical evidence on the effect of large incentives - as present … in relevant economic decisions - on cognitive biases is scant. This paper tests the effect of incentives on four widely … incentives, standard lab payments, and very high incentives that increase the stakes by a factor of 100 to more than a monthly …
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