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Untalented but successful? : Rosen and Adler superstar Pokemons
Gergaud, Olivier; Verardi, Vincenzo - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 60 (2021) 5, pp. 2637-2655
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Cupid's invisible hand: social surplus and identification in matching models
Galichon, Alfred; Salanié, Bernard - 2021
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Copying, superstars and artistic creation
Alcalá, Francisco; Gonzalez-Maestre, Miguel - Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Murcia - 2009
emphasizes three important aspects of artistic markets: the predominance of superstars, the dynamics of talent sorting, and the … importance of promotion expenditures. In the short run, piracy reduces superstars’ earnings and market share, and increases the … equipment may crucially depend on whether their yields primarily accrue to superstars or are allocated to help young artists. …
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Finance and the rise in inequalities in France
Godechot, Olivier - HAL - 2011
Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, we show that wage inequalities started to increase in France in the mid-1990s. This phenomenon is limited to the top end of income distribution and concerns mainly the top 0.1%, whose share of total salaries increased from 1.2% to 2%...
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Compensation in the Financial Sector: Are all Bankers Superstars?
Célérier, C. - Banque de France - 2010
models accounting for these facts: a model of superstars (Rosen, 1981), a model of compensating wage differential (Lucas … these models. I conclude that the model of superstars fits better the data than the models of moral hazard and compensating …
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What makes you "super-rich"? New evidence from an analysis of football players' earnings
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco; Raitano, Michele - 2017
This article investigates the influence of performance, popularity and power on "superearnings" using a unique panel dataset of Italian football players built on various sources of data. Using OLS, Panel and Unconditional Quantile regression techniques, we find that detailed measures of these...
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Exclusion in the all-pay auction: An experimental investigation
Fehr, Dietmar; Schmid, Julia - 2017
Contest designers or managers who want to maximize the overall revenue of a contest (relative performance scheme) are frequently concerned with a trade-off between contest homogeneity and inclusion of contestants with high valuations. In our experimental study, we find that it is not profitable...
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What does it take to be a star? The role of performance and the media for German soccer players
Lehmann, Erik E.; Schulze, Günther G. - 2007
' performance and media presence to analyze whether performance and popularity can explain salaries and superstars in soccer …
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The granularity of Spanish exports
de Lucio, Juan; Mínguez, Raúl; Minondo, Asier; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 3, pp. 225-259
Using data for all exporters, we show that it is a small group of firms that dominate exports in Spain. For example, in 2015 the top 200 firms were responsible for half of Spanish exports. This concentration has not changed substantially over the 1997-2015 period. The dominance of a few firms, a...
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Stars in social media: New light through old windows?
Gaenssle, Sophia; Budzinski, Oliver - 2019
We review the economics of superstars, originally developed for stars in traditional media, and discuss whether they … overall result is that the economics of superstars, like the role of talent, market concentration effects, MacDonald-style and …
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