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ownership across industries. As a result, common ownership presents less of a threat to competition …
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The traditional view on CEO pay suggests that the use of equity-based incentives (e.g., stocks and options) should increase when stock prices become more informative about managerial action. In this paper, we show this is only true in the relative sense, when comparing with CEOs'...
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We study the effects of PPP loans on business competition. We start by introducing temporary cash subsidies into a … model of monopolistic competition with differentiated products and heterogeneous production costs. We test the predictions …-PPP competitors lost 70.5 cents in aggregate. Our results suggest that the PPP initiative distorted competition, imposing significant …
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Using a large panel data set of German manufacturing establishments, this paper investigates the impact of competition … on training incidence as well as on the number of trained workers. According to theory, one would expect a negative … relationship between product market competition and firms' incentives to invest in employees' general skills (Gersbach and …
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at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition consequently … on the basis of a lack of competition …
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If managers maximize the payoffs of their shareholders rather than firm profits, then it may be anticompetitive for a shareholder to own competing firms. This is because a manager?s objective function may place weight on profits of competitors who are held by the same shareholder. Recent...
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This paper explores the impact of product market competition on the positive relation between labor mobility (LM) and … industries. This evidence suggests that the intensity of competition in firms' product market potentially drives the positive LM …
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