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Ritzen, Jo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

in resolving or channeling the major societal questions. More European competition between universities in education and …

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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms’ efforts to raise their … into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on …

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital...

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Does Competition Enhance Performance or Cheating? A Laboratory Experiment

Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

academia have been partially explained by “competitive pressures”, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women’s cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …

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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …

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'The' Market for Higher Education: Does It Really Exist?

Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular...

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Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment

Cabrales, Antonio; Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational … relative number of agents because competition reduces the agents’ informational monopoly power. However, this environment also …

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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if … intuition, labor market competition does not destroy but may indeed foster within-firm cooperation. …

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Does School Privatization Improve Educational Achievement? Evidence from Sweden's Voucher Reform

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …

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Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence from a Japanese Fishing Community

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Seki, Erika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …

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