Search Results - subject:"complementarities"

Complementarity and institutional change: How useful a concept?

Deeg, Richard - 2005

to measure the strength or ‘binding force’ of complementarities. Second, it assesses the utility of the concept for … complementarities are significant, assessing their causal effect on institutional change is difficult and ambiguous in most instances. A … better understanding requires that we embed complementarities within a more general theory of institutional change which …

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A Note on Sabotage in Collective Tournaments

Gürtler, Oliver - 2005

In this paper a tournament between teams (a collective tournament) is analyzed, where each contestant may spend productive effort in order to increase his team's performance or sabotage the members of the opponent team. It is shown that sabotaging the weaker members of a team always decreases...

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Diversity of capitalism and Central and Eastern European Countries. A statistical analysis. (In French)

BERROU, Jean-Philippe; CARRINCAZEAUX, Christophe - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2005

the theoretical design of institutional complementarities whose coherence defines the character of model of capitalism …

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MARKET ACCESS FOR HIGH-VALUE FOODS

Regmi, Anita; Gehlhar, Mark J.; Wainio, John; Vollrath, … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2005

Market access remains a major impediment for expansion of global trade in high-value foods, particularly processed foods. Countries use tariffs and other measures that effectively stimulate imports of relatively unprocessed agricultural commodities at the expense of processed products. Tariff...

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Strategic substitutabilities versus strategic complementarities: Towards a general theory of expectational coordination?

Guesnerie, Roger - HAL - 2005

: Strategic Complementarities (StCo) dominate or on the contrary are dominated by Strategic Substitutabilities (StSu). Although in …

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Unique equilibrium in a dynamic model of crises with frictions

Guimaraes, Bernardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper studies a dynamic model of crises with timing frictions that combines the main aspects of Morris and Shin (1998) and Frankel and Pauzner (2000). The usual arguments for existence and uniqueness of equilibrium cannot be applied. It is shown that the model has a unique equilibrium...

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Catching a wave: the adoption of voice and high commitment workplace practices in Britain: 1984-1998

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In this paper we treat workplace voice and systems of high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) as technological innovations in order to account for the uneven diffusion patterns observed across establishments. Using British data, the paper finds that variables highlighted in the...

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Complementarity and institutional change: How useful a concept?

Deeg, Richard - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2005

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Equilibrium Evaluation of Active Labor Market Programmes Enhancing Matching Effectiveness

Bruno, VAN DER LINDEN - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005

This paper evaluates counselling programmes in an equilibrium matching model where workers are heterogeneous in skill levels. Job search effort, labour demand and wages are endogenous. When wages are bargained over, raising the effectiveness of or the access to counselling programmes pushes...

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R&D Networks with Heterogenous Firms

Zirulia, Lorenzo - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2005

This paper models the formation of R&D networks in an industry where firms are technologically heterogenous, extending previous work by Goyal and Moraga (2001). While remaining competitors in the market side, firms share their R&D efforts on a pairwise base, to an extent that depends on their...

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