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Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes

Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022

Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...

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The anatomy of competitiveness

Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2023

A large empirical literature in behavioral economics investigates heterogeneity across individuals and groups in preferences for competition. In this study, we provide a more detailed view on competitiveness by differentiating between four different motivations for entering competitions –...

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Business Networks and Crisis Performance: Professional, Political, and Family Ties

Carney, Richard W.; Child, Travers Barclay - 2015

, political, and family networks for 1,290 large East Asian firms. We find that professional networks buoyed performance during … the 2008 financial crisis; political and family networks did not. We provide evidence that information access is a key … mechanism underlying the effect of professional networks. A one standard deviation improvement to a firm's professional network …

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High Performance in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands

Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …

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Product Differentiation on Roads: Second-Best Congestion Pricing with Heterogeneity under Public and Private Ownership

Verhoef, Erik T.; Small, Kenneth A. - 1999

We explore the properties of various types of public and private pricing on acongested road network with heterogeneous users and allowing for elasticdemand. Heterogeneity is represented by a continuum of values of time. Thenetwork consists of both serial and parallel links, which allows us to...

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R&D Networks

Goyal, Sanjeev; Moraga, Jose Luis - 2000

We develop a model of strategic networks that captures two distinctive features of interfirm collaboration: bilateral … to invest in R&D, and the architecture of collaboration networks. In the absence of firm rivalry, the complete network …, under strong market rivalry the complete network is stable, but intermediate levels of collaboration and asymmetric networks …

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The Economics of Airport Congestion Pricing

Pels, Eric; Verhoef, Erik - 2003

Conventional economic wisdom suggests that congestion pricing would be an appropriate response to cope with the growing congestion levels currently experienced at many airports. Several characteristics of aviation markets, however, may make naive congestion prices equal to the value of marginal...

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Inside the Queue

Verhoef, Erik T. - 2002

This paper develops a continuous-time -continuous-place economic model of road trafficcongestion with a bottleneck, based on car-following theory. The model integrates twoarchetype congestion technologies used in the economics literature: 'static flow congestion',originating in the works of...

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Competing Transport Networks

van der Leij, Marco J. - 2003

In a circular city model, I consider network design and pricing decisions for asingle fast transport connection that faces competition from a slower but betteraccessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals haveto make complementary trips by slow mode. This fact has...

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Economics: An Emerging Small World?

Goyal, Sanjeev; van der Leij, Marco; Moraga, Jose Luis - 2004

This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands....

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