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Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - 2010

We study an all-pay contest with multiple identical prizes (lifeboat seats). Prizes are partitioned into subsets of prizes (lifeboats). Players play a two-stage game. First, each player chooses an element of the partition (a lifeboat). Then each player competes for a prize in the subset chosen...

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How many ladders of investment?

Herrera-González, Fernando - 2011

The ladder of investment is a regulatory approach that has been used by European National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), in order to foster infrastructure competition among operators. the idea is to force incumbent operators to open several levels of access to their network in such a way that...

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Efficiency of transport infrastructure and ICT development

Yoon, Chang-Ho; Na, Kyoung-Youn - 2013

complementarity between ICT and transportation infrastructures. The network effect of growth of motorway infrastructure in advanced …

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ICT and Transport Infrastructure Development

Na, Kyoung-Youn; Yoon, Chang-Ho - 2016

This paper estimates the non-linear impact of ICT network on motorway contribution to total factor productivity. Using dynamic panel data of OECD member countries, the paper finds that there exists a critical mass of broadband penetration rate which has the property that if this threshold level...

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The Corporate Venture Capital Exit Decision

Maxin, Hannes - 2018

This paper investigates an entrepreneur who decides whether to obtain funds from an independent venture capital firm (IVC) or a corporate venture capital firm (CVC) to develop an innovative product. In case of success, the entrepreneur enters a market and competes with an incumbent. The CVC is a...

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ICT development and productivity of transport infrastructure

Na, Kyoung-Youn; Yoon, Chang-ho - 2015

dynamic panel data of OECD member countries, the paper finds that there exists significant complementarity between ICT network …

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Taxation of Annual Income as a Commitment Device

Gaube, Thomas - 2010

-consistent taxation of annual income can also welfare-dominate taxation of lifetime income under commitment. These findings may help in …

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Temptation and Commitment in the Laboratory

Winter, Joachim; Houser, Daniel; Schunk, Daniel; Xiao, Erte - 2010

the timing and price-elasticity of these commitment decisions to predictions from existing theoretical models of decision … under temptation. Our data are broadly consistent with theory, with the notable exception that commitment often occurs with … delay rather than at the first opportunity. Moreover, the timing of commitment is significantly impacted by the cost of the …

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Regional Policy and rent-seeking

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Coniglio, Nicola Daniele - 2004

The most important policy instrument to promote regional development in the European Union is Strucutral Funds, covering approximately a third of the EU budget. An empirical analysis demonstrates that these funds have on average been ineffective in speeding up the process of convergence with in...

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Regulation, Rents and "Iconic Design": rent acquisition by design in the tightly constrained London office market

Cheshire, Paul; Dericks, Gerard - 2013

A 2008 paper investigating the Regulatory Tax (RT) on office development in Britain (Cheshire & Hilber, 2008) provided evidence of very tight restrictions on office space going back at least 50 years. It was also argued that the RT measure tended to underestimate the full costs of restrictive...

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