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Information costs, networks and intermediation in international trade
Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
role of information costs on incentives for trade intermediation, thereby endogenising the pattern of direct and indirect … trade. Intermediation is shown to unambiguously raise expected trade volume and social welfare by expanding the set of … indirect trade to arise in equilibrium while the pattern of trade is shown to depend on the level of information costs as well …
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Competing for contacts: network competition, trade intermediation and fragmented duopoly
Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
A two-sided, pair-wise matching model is developed to analyse the strategic interaction between two information intermediaries who compete in commission rates and network size, giving rise to a fragmented duopoly market structure. The model suggests that network competition between information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746133
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When the claim hits: bilateral investment treaties and bounded rational learning
Poulsen, Lauge N. Skovgaard; Aisbett, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper applies notions of bounded rationality to the study of economic diplomacy. Through a multi-method approach, it shows that developing countries often ignored the risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until they...
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Culturally clustered or in the cloud? location of internet start-ups in Berlin
Moeller, Kristoffer - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Knowledge based firms like IT companies do neither have a capital- nor a land intensive production. They predominantly rely on qualified labour and increasingly depend on the location of its (potential) employees. This implies that it is more likely that firms follow workers rather than the...
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Homeownerhip and entrepreneurship
Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship by exploiting the longitudinal dimension of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and constructing a detailed monthly-spell dataset that tracks individuals‟ job history and tenure choice, coupled with other time-varying...
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Strategic communication: prices versus quantities
Alonso, Ricardo; Matouschek, Niko; Dessein, Wouter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
We examine how cheap talk communication between managers within the same firm depends on the type of decisions that the firm makes. A firm consists of a headquarters and two operating divisions. Headquarters is unbiased but does not know the demand conditions in the divisions' markets. Each...
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Does self-employment measure entrepreneurship? evidence from Great Britain
Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative behaviour. However, little evidence has been collected on the link between these measures. In this paper, we use data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126339
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Say pays! Shareholder voice and firm performance
Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-sponsored SoP proposals. Adopting SoP leads to large increases...
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Only the lonely?: the influence of spouse on the transition to self-employment
Özcan, Berkay - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Previous research showed that married individuals are overrepresented among the self-employed. Few studies proposed skill-spillover between the spouses within the marriage as an explanation. This paper deviates from the previous research by exploring different relationship contexts (e.g.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071499
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Ownership and managerial competition: employee, customer, or outside ownership
Bolton, Patrick; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers and employees’ incentives to invest in human capital. We argue that employees’ incentives in human capital investment are affected by both ownership and competition since...
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