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competition is weak and/or when (b) family-owned firms pass management control down to the eldest sons (primo geniture). European … firms report lower levels of competition, while French and British firms also report substantially higher levels of primo … market competition and family firms account for about half of the long tail of badly managed firms and up to two thirds of …
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This Paper investigates whether there is convergence in Total Factor Productivity towards the technological frontier at the establishment level. We find convergence to the frontier is statistically and quantitatively important, suggesting the existence of technology spillovers. Foreign...
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This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … competition leads to longer waiting times in equilibrium if the competitive segment is sufficiently large. Given a policy regime … of hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling …
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Charitable organizations send out large volumes of direct mailings, soliciting for money in support of many good causes. Without any request, donations are rarely made, and it is well known that each request for money by a charity likely generates at least some revenues. Whether a single request...
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This paper provides an analysis of all the European Commission's decisions on anti-trust cases between January 1999 and February 2004. We use a unique dataset that contains information not only on the cases that were analyzed by the Commission and for which a decision was finally made public,...
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competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by … incentives to take risk and raise failure probabilities. The competition-stability trade-off is characterized and the … implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …
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comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … women self-select significantly less into competition against men only in the quantitative task. This finding suggests that … remaining gender differences for entry into competition are driven by gender-task stereotypes. As a robustness check, we explore …
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The Productivity Commission’s inquiry report into the ‘Road and Rail Freight Infrastructure Pricing’, was tabled in Parliament in April 2007. The Commission had been asked to inquiry into the costs of freight transport infrastructure on major road and rail networks and options for...
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The Commission’s modelling indicates that there would be economy–wide benefits from further reductions in assistance to the automotive sector, particularly for tariffs. It also suggests that the benefits would be larger under the current assistance reduction program than options entailing...
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market. Moreover, the higher the degree of competition in the market for news, the more likely that media outlets will hire …
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