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Certification as a Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism: Theory and Suggestive Evidence
Svitkova, Katarina; Ortmann, Andreas - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2006
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/10005357507
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Prompted to Be Good: The Impact of Certification on the Quality of Charities
Svitkova, Katarina - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2007
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/10005086643
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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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Exit dynamics of start-up firms. Does profit matter?
Golombek, Rolf; Raknerud, Arvid - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
While little attention has been paid to the role of profitability in the empirical literature on firm exit, we employ a detailed recently established database of Norwegian manufacturing firms to identify the extent to which profitability explains a firm's exit behavior. Some key characteristics...
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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G.; Popova, Vera - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
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...
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The Effect of Salvage Market on Strategic Technology Choice and Capacity Investment Decision of Firm under Demand Uncertainty
Kashefi, Mohammad Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the effect of salvage market on strategic technology choice and capacity investment decision of two firms that compete on the amount of output they produce under demand uncertainty. A game theoretic model applies such that in the first stage firms choose their production...
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Solving payoff sets of perfect public equilibria: an example
Du, Chuang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We study an example of infinitely repeated games in which symmetric duopolistic firms produce experience goods. After consuming the products, short-run consumers only observe imperfect public information about product quality. We characterize perfect public equilibrium payoff set E(δ) of firms...
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Differentiable game complete analysis for tourism firm decisions
Carfì, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we apply the complete analysis of a differentiable game (recently introduced by the author) to determine possible suitable behaviors (actions) of tourism firms during strategic interactions with other tourism firms, from both non-cooperative and cooperative point of view. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855235
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Cournot Competition between Teams: An Experimental Study
Schipper, Burkhard C.; Raab, Philippe - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2006
In the economic literature on market competition, firms are often modelled as single decision makers and the internal organization of the firm is neglected (unitary player assumption). However, as the literature on strategic delegation suggests, one can not generally expect that the behavior of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620340
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Imitators and Optimizers in Cournot oligopoly
Schipper, Burkhard C. - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2005
We analyze a symmetric n-firm Cournot oligopoly with a heterogeneous population of optimizers and imitators. Imitators mimic the output decision of the most successful firms of the previous round a la Vega-Redondo (1997). Optimizers play a myopic best response to the opponents' previous output....
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