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Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications

Birkholz, Carlo; Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; … - 2022

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Bargaining Power and the Labor Share - a Structural Break Approach

Kraft, Kornelius; Lammers, Alexander - 2021

In this paper we investigate the relevance of bargaining institutions for the decline of the labor share. Several explanations for the decline exist, which consider the relevance of technology, globalization and markups. Neglected so far is the influence of bargaining institutions, in particular...

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Regional Quality and Impaired Firms: Evidence from Italy

De Martiis, Angela; Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2017

We analyze how regional quality affects firm’s efficiency by identifying the impaired firms receiving financial assistance as those paying an implicit interest rate lower than the prime rate. Then, we decompose them into: real impaired firms unable to repay their loans, and those not repaying...

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The Quality of Regional Government and Firm Performance

Ricotta, Fernanda - 2016

The performance of a firm is influenced by decisions made by the firm itself as well as factors external to it. Firm competencies are important but also competencies that pertain to territories. External factors encompass different aspects of the environmental context in which firms operate,...

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Does it really get better with age? Life-cycle patterns of confidence in Germany

Pannenberg, Markus; Friehe, Tim - 2019

This paper investigates if and how confidence at the individual level changes over the course of a life. We provide age … profiles of a novel continuous confidence measure and the probability of overconfidence, conditioning on personality traits … gross wage distribution as our measure of confidence. We find that both the level of confidence and the overconfidence …

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The Assessment of COVID-19 Effect on European Union Industrial Sector

Tudorache, Maria-Daniela; Nae, Maria Tamara; Jianu, Ionut - 2021

In this paper, we estimated the impact of COVID-19 shock on the industrial production and on the confidence in industry … confidence index. The outlooks are still exposed to uncertainty, but these have been improved in the latest months. …

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Does austerity pay off?

Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot; Pfeifer, Johannes - 2014

market confidence, bringing about a reduction in yield spreads? We employ a new panel data set which contains sovereign yield …

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Children's cooperation and discrimination in a bilingual province

Lergetporer, Philipp; Angerer, Silvia; … - 2015

While discrimination and its economic implications have been studied in many different societies and based on a multitude of attributes like ethnicity, religion, gender, or language, the development of such behavior in children is still poorly understood. Here we present experimental evidence...

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Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - 2015

We study how website defaults aff ect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that …

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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015

We study the role of self-interest and social preferences in referenda. Our analysis is based on collective purchasing decisions of university students on deep-discount flat-rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data allows quantifying monetary benefits associated...

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