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This paper empirically examines whether market competition is associated with greater bribe payments. We use firm …-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys. Since market competition could be endogenous and … some firms report zero bribes, we employ a tobit estimation methodology instrumenting for market competition. We find that …
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This paper examines whether exposure to persistent resource scarcity on the commons affects pastoralists' readiness to engage in antisocial behavior towards their fellow commons users. The region under study is divided into two areas according to exogenous variations in biomass production...
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We study the market for child care services, with a special focus on examining competition between for- and nonprofits …
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risks of aggravating circumstances. For food producers in Serbia the process of trade liberalization is a tough competition … marketing management. Increased competition in the domestic market should contribute to increasing the quality and supply of …
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the existent competition and the structural competitiveness taking like reference the indexes of the revealed comparative …
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competition between healthcare providers on prescription of antibiotics. The analysis makes use of a competition-inducing reform … competition had a positive and significant effect on prescription of antibiotics. This increase in prescription of antibiotics was …
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competition between the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ is the main purpose of our research. In our opinion, this competition may be …
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We examine the firm-level and country-level determinants of the currency denomination of small business loans. We introduce an information asymmetry between banks and firms in a model that also features the trade-off between the cost of debt and firm-level distress costs. Banks in our model...
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We analyze a dynamic model of strategic interaction between a professional sport league that organizes a tournament, the teams competing to win it, and the broadcasters paying for the rights to televise it.Teams and broadcasters maximize expected profits, while the league's objective may be...
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