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The Effects of Corporate Governance and Product Market Competition on Analysts’ Forecasts : Evidence from the Brazilian Capital Market
Almeida, Jose Elias Feres de - 2015
analysts, we find that competitive industries provide incentives to increase the flow of information but not necessarily to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021973
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The Dark Side of Competitive Pressure
Cummins, Jason G.; Nyman, Ingmar - Department of Economics, Hunter College - 2002
One of the most basic principles in economics is that competitive pressure promotes efficiency. However, this pressure can also have a dark side because it makes firms reluctant to act on private information that is unpopular with consumers. As a result, firms that possess superior information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987339
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The Dark Side of Competitive Pressure
Cummins, Jason G.; Nyman, Ingmar - 2003
One of the most basic principles in economics is that competitive pressure promotes efficiency. However, this pressure can also have a dark side because it makes firms reluctant to act on private information that is unpopular with consumers. As a result, firms that possess superior information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106505
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Analysis of sustainable competitiveness of European countries in 2013
Filipović, Milorad; Despotovic, Danijela - In: Ekonomika : međunarodni časopis za ekonomsku teoriju … 60 (2014) 4, pp. 77-91
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The adverse consequences of tournaments : evidence from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in which one part was awarded on the basis of their relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455813
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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At … work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods …
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Do tournaments with superstars encourage or discourage competition?
Babington, Michael; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kitchens, Carl T. - 2017
To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...
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Measuring the sorting and incentive effects of tournament prizes
Davies, Tim; Stoian, Adrian - In: The American economist : journal of Omnicron Delta … 59 (2014) 2, pp. 153-166
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On the incentive effects of sample size in monitoring agents : a theoretical and experimental analysis
Avrahami, Judith; Güth, Werner; Kareev, Yaakov; Uske, … - In: German economic review 18 (2017) 1, pp. 81-98
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Order effect under the "away-goals rule" : evidence from CONMEBOL competitions
Varela-Quintana, Carlos; Corral, Julio del; … - In: International journal of sport finance 13 (2018) 1, pp. 82-102
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