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Risk Preference, Correlation Choice, Sabotage, and the Design of Promotion Tournaments

Yumoto, Yuji - 2003

the loser-selecting tournament, which means the promotion ratio is more than one-half, workers prefer a low risk approach … or a common approach which peers also know well; on the other hand, under the winner-selecting tournament, which means … results suggest that the loser-selecting tournament is more efficient than the winner-selecting tournament in terms of the …

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Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry under Network Externalities

Klimenko, Mikhail; Saggi, Kamal - Georgia Institute of Technology; Southern Methodist … - 2004

This paper examines the preferences of a foreign firm and awelfare-maximizing host country government over two modes of foreigndirect investment (FDI): de novo entry by the foreign firm andacquisition of the domestic incumbent. Two crucial features of the modelare the presence of network...

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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction

Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business - 2004

This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice ofregulation in the US telecommunications sector. We examine the impact oftechnological and regulatory change on market structure and businessstrategy. Among others, we discuss the emergence and decline of thetelecom bubble, the...

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Imperfect Platform Competition: A General Framework

White, Alexander; Weyl, E. Glen - Harvard University; Harvard University and Toulouse … - 2010

We propose a general model of imperfect competition among multi-productfirms, the consumption of whose goods yields externalities from oneconsumer to another. We extend the allocation approach of Weyl (2010)'smonopoly model, proposing a solution concept, Insulated Equilibrium,that allows for...

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The Results of Competition Between Integrated-Services Telecommunications Carriers

Peha, Jon M.; Tewari, Saurabh - 1998

This paper investigates the results of competition between two profit-seeking telecommunications carriers, as might occur when cable TV providers compete with local exchange carriers. Each firm has a fixed capacity that it can use to offer two different services, such as telephony or video. We...

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The Effect of Competition on Trade Patterns: Evidence from the Collapse of International Cartels

Levenstein, Margaret C. - 2010

ten cartels. Contrary to conventional wisdom, and consistent with the more recent oligopoly trade models, we find no …

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Strategic Environmental Policy and International Trade in Asymmetric Oligopoly Markets

Duval, Yann; Hamilton, Stephen F. - 2002

oligopoly and employs a general specification of the environmental damage function that encompasses special cases of local … exchange) in determining optimal cooperative and non-cooperative tax policy under oligopoly. …

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Green Markets, Eco-Certification, and Equilibrium Fraud

Hamilton, Stephen F.; Zilberman, David - 2006

Consumers voluntarily pay significant price premiums to acquire unobservable environmental attributes in green markets. This paper considers the performance of eco-certification policy under circumstances where consumers cannot discern environmental attributes in goods, but are able to form...

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Optimistic Managers & Their Influence on Productivity & Employee Engagement in a Technology Organization

Greenberg, Margaret H; Arakawa, Dana - 2006

manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT … subset of this data prospectively, with 39 employees and 14 managers, manager optimism predicted project performance. Our …

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Key Factors for Reaching the Top of the Corporate Ladder

Sinkus, Nicholas - 2007

Nardelli, the lives of these high ranking corporate managers have been extensively scrutinized. However, despite the numerous … interview senior level managers and executives within local companies and see what their experience and success has taught them …

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