Market share objectives are prominent in many industries, especially where man-agers pay much attention to league table rankings. This paper explores the strategicrationale for giving managers incentives based on market share in an oligopoly com-peting in strategic substitutes. Moreover, the...

I analyze empirically the effects of both urban and industrial agglomeration on men’s andwomen’s search behavior and on the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on the ItalianLabor Force Survey micro-data, which covers 520 randomly drawn Local Labor Market Areas(66 per cent of the...