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Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device

Brown, Martin; Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

When workers are faced with the threat of unemployment, their relationship with a particular firm becomes valuable. As … market characterized by exogenous unemployment. However, stronger competition for labor does not impair labor market …

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Labour market screening with intermediaries

Schweinzer, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

We consider a Rothschild-Stiglitz-Spence labour market screening model and employ a centralised mechanism to coordinate the efficient matching of workers to firms. This mechanism can be thought of as operated by a recruitment agency, an employment office or head hunter. In a centralised...

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Competition Policy and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Assessment

Buccirossi, Paolo; Ciari, Lorenzo; Duso, Tomaso; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

institutions. …

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The Political Economy of Corruption and the Role of Financial Institutions

Boerner, Kira; Hainz, Christa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

political pressure to reduce corruption if financial institutions are missing. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt … the rents from corruption. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more …-functioning financial institutions, in turn, can increase the political support for anti-corruption measures. …

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The Impact of ISO 9000 Diffusion on Trade and FDI: A New Institutional Analysis

Clougherty, Joseph A.; Grajek, Michal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The effects of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and FDI have gone understudied. We employ panel data reported by OECD nations over the 1995-2002 period to estimate the impact of ISO adoptions on country-pair economic relations. We find ISO diffusion to have no effect in developed nations, but to...

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Providing Public Goods Without Strong Sanctioning Institutions

Gerber, Anke; Wichardt, Philipp C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

powerful institutions to sanction free-riders. The idea of the mechanism is to require players to commit to the public good by …

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Business Groups in Emerging Markets - Financial Control and Sequential Investment

Hainz, Christa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. We investigate this by setting up a model …

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