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Industrial district heterogeneity and competitive advantage: Evidence from Italy

Carbonara, Nunzia; Giannoccaro, Ilaria - 2010

This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate concerning the role of heterogeneity for the GC competitive … advantage. With this aim, we focus on different sources of heterogeneity and study how the different level of heterogeneity … affects the performance of GCs. Specifically, we consider the GC heterogeneity due to: 1) the variety in the firms …

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Non-linear externalities in firm locations: A computational estimation method

Bottazzi, Giulio; Gragnollati, Ugo M.; Vanni, Fabio - 2014

A stochastic discrete choice model and its related estimation method are presented which allow to disentangle non-linear externalities from the intrinsic features of the objects of choice and from the idiosyncratic preferences of agents. Having veried for the ergodicity of the underlying...

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Business cycle fluctuations and the distribution of consumption

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Gambetti, Luca - 2015

This paper sheds new light on the interactions between business cycles and the consumption distribution. We use Consumer Expenditure Survey data and a factor model to characterize the cyclical dynamics of the consumption distribution. We first establish that our approach is able to closely match...

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Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John: The impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being

Binder, Martin - 2015

This short note seeks to replicate the quantile regression analysis in Binder and Coad (2011), but taking into account individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest (health, social life, income, education) over the...

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Voting and transfer payments in a threshold public goods game

Feige, Christian; Ehrhart, Karl-Martin - 2015

In a laboratory experiment, we investigate if groups consisting of two heterogeneous player types (with different marginal contribution costs) can increase their total contributions and payoffs in a threshold public goods game if transfer payments are possible among the players. We find that...

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Wage Rigidity and Labor Market Dynamics with Sorting

Schulz, Bastian - 2015

This paper adds two-sided ex-ante heterogeneity and a production technology inducingsorting to the canonical Diamond …-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) search and matchingmodel. Ex-ante heterogeneity and sorting have important implications for the dynamicproperties of …

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Quality and the Great Trade Collapse

Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2015

We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but...

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The Doping Threshold in Sport Contests

Müller, Daniel - 2013

We analyze the doping behavior of heterogeneous athletes in an environment of private information. In a n-player strategic game, modeled as an all-pay auction, each athlete has private information about his actual physical ability and choses the amount of performance-enhancing drugs. The use of...

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Forecasting heterogeneous regional data: The case of Spanish employment

Angulo, Ana; Mur, Jesús; Trívez, Javier - 2013

Forecasting regional variables provides very important information for political, institutional and economic agents. However, in the present context characterized by important decline of economies, heterogeneous data and regional interdependencies, it is even more difficult to carry out accurate...

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Commuters' preferences for fast and reliable travel

Koster, Paul; Koster, Hans - 2013

, we explicitly analyse heterogeneity in the value of time and reliability using a novel semi-econometric procedure, based … substantial heterogeneity in the value of time and reliability. In order to avoid misspecification due to restrictive functional … form assumptions, but more importantly, to analyse the importance of observed and unobserved heterogeneity in the value of …

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