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Certification as a Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism : Theory and Suggestive Evidence
Svitkova, Katarina; Ortmann, Andreas - 2008
particular solution of this problem, certification, where an independent agency provides a costly signal, a certificate, to … nonprofit. The assumptions of our model are derived from stylized facts that we distilled from certification systems currently … literature on certification and provides results that are different from those reported up to now …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217191
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Prompted to Be Good : The Impact of Certification on the Quality of Charities
Svitkova, Katarina - 2008
In this study we model how certification affects managers' choice of the quality of the nonprofit organizations they … charitable good, one donor, and a certification agency. We assume that the nature of the charitable good does not allow for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219236
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Strategic mismatches in competing teams
Kräkel, Matthias - 1999
This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage (e.g. harming other competitors). In addition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001442145
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Downsizing the labor force by low and high profit firms : an experimental analysis
Güth, Werner; Paul, Christian - 2008
One may hope to capture the behavioral and emotional effects of downsizing the laborforce in rather abstract settings as an ultimatum game (see Fischer et al. (2008)), or try to explore downsizing in its more natural principalagent scenario with a labor market background. We pursue the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796325
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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin; Angelova, Vera - 2010
One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944228
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A Three-Stage Labour-Managed Cournot Duopoly with Lifetime Employment as a Strategic Commitment
Ohnishi, Kazuhiro - 2013
This paper studies the effectiveness of lifetime employment as a strategic commitment in a three-stage Cournot model with two identical labour-managed income-per-worker-maximizing firms. In the first stage, one labour-managed firm is allowed to offer lifetime employment. In the second stage, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078300
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Competição Duopolista via Publicidade e Preços : Uma Abordagem Computacional (Duopolistic Competition through Price and Advertising: A Computational Approach)
Pinheiro, Jose - 2014
Portuguese Abstract: Exploramos vários jogos diferenciais para simular a competição entre duas firmas em Preço, Publicidade, e Preço e Publicidade simultâneamente. Os resultados reforçam conclusões importantes na literatura e complementam-na, permitindo analisar a competição em dois...
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Análisis De Efectos Explotativos De Integraciones Empresariales a Partir Del Modelo De Cournot : El Caso De Mercados Con Bienes Homogéneos (Analysis of the Exploitative Effects of...
Herrera Saavedra, Juan Pablo - 2014
Spanish Abstract: Este artículo modela los posibles efectos que sobre el precio de un mercado de un bien homogéneo se puede producir ante una integración empresarial. El análisis se realizará a partir de dos escenarios, (i) considerando tecnologías similares entre firmas y (ii) con algún...
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Exit Dynamics of Start-Up Firms : Does Profit Matter?
Golombek, Rolf - 2015
We estimate by means of indirect inference a structural economic model where firms' exit and investment decisions are the solution to a discrete-continuous dynamic programming problem. In the model the exit probability depends on the current capital stock and a measure of short-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028914
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Outsourcing in Place : Should a Retailer Sell Its Store-Brand Factory?
Durango-Cohen, Elizabeth - 2015
Several major grocery chains in the US own factories that produce some of their store-brand products. Historically, these store-brand products have been the low-price, lower-quality alternatives to higher-priced national brands, but the quality and consumer acceptance of store brands have...
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