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Culture and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China

Zhang, Y. Jane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Radical communist reforms propelled traditionally secluded Han Chinese women into the labor force but exempted ethnic minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no...

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Simultaneous Decision-Making in Competitive and Cooperative Environments

Savikhin, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

competition (lottery contest) and one that encourages cooperation (public good game). We find that simultaneous participation in … competition. We find that in early periods, there is a negative correlation between decisions in competitive and in cooperative …

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Demand shifting across flights and airports in a spatial competition model

Escobari, Diego; Lee, Sang-Yeob - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper investigates the nature of day-to-day competition between flights using a unique panel data set on prices …

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Income-specific estimates of competition in European banking

Samantas, Ioannis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

literature of competition modeling has produced mixed results, the proposed methodology goes one step further in order to … investigate the intensity of key effects on bank competition as decomposed into specific bank activities. The sample comprises … pricing conduct, provide considerable policy implications. …

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Complements and Substitutes in Sequential Auctions: The Case of Water Auctions

Donna, Javier; Espin-Sanchez, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We use data on sequential water auctions to estimate demand when units are com- plements or substitutes. A sequential English auction model determines the estimating structural equations. When units are complements, one bidder wins all units by paying a high price for the first unit, thus...

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Markup heterogeneity, export status ans the establishment of the euro

Guillou, Sarah; Nesta, Lionel - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2015

We investigate the effects of the establishment of the euro on the markups of French manufacturing firms. Merging firm-level census data with customs data, we estimate time-varying firm-specific markups and distinguish between eurozone exporters from other firms between 1995 and 2007. We find...

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Workshop 4 Report: Governance, ownership and competition in deregulated public transport markets

van de Velde, Didier; Augustin, Katrin - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 237-244

This workshop discussed the functioning of deregulated public transport markets, examining competition options for …

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Open access for railways and transaction cost economics – Management perspectives of Australia's rail companies

Merkert, Rico; Hensher, David A. - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 227-236

With the aim to improve efficiency and value for money, in addition to tendered services the European Commission approach to rail organisation allows substantial open access rail services in both passenger and freight operations. This paper investigates, from a transaction cost perspective,...

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Competition in regional passenger rail transport in Germany (Leipzig) and lessons to be drawn for France

Guihéry, Laurent - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 298-304

The opening to competition in Germany's regional railway transport is interesting to investigate as some EU countries …'s regional passenger railway services opening to competition between 2009 and 2013, time when Leipzig's new underground City … transport before and after competition. We will show that the introduction of competition in Leipzig region has reduced the …

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Analysis of intercity bus markets on long distances in an established and a young market: The example of the U.S. and Germany

Augustin, Katrin; Gerike, Regine; Sanchez, Martinez; … - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 245-254

Recent deregulation in German long distance bus services lead to highly dynamic developments in this market. Long-distance coach services in the U.S. have been deregulated since the 1980th. The aim of this paper is to compare one established and one young/emerging market with the example of the...

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