pass-through the cost shock fully on their export prices. Their production, exports and employment fall. A consequence of … only firms able to adapt their production process to energy cost shocks have survived. Importantly, when faced with large …

-Douglas production function. …

We assess how survey expectations impact production and pricing decisions on the basis of a large panel of German firms … future. The probability to raise (lower) production is 15 percentage points higher for optimistic (pessimistic) firms than …

competition, and/or the behavioral impacts of competition. Psychologically, a competitive environment alters incentives for ….e., succeeding in a competition is valuable per se. We design an experiment that allows us to disentangle financial and psychological …

extent of competition from substitute products. I estimate that, in 2019, public corporations produced consumer surplus in …

We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference … that higher competition between villages reduces conflict but only up to moderate levels of competition. The conflict …-reducing effects of competition are largest in the most ethnically fractionalized and segregated villages and exist regardless of the …

We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the … competition period. 4-year follow-up data indicate that the effect persists and generalizes, suggesting a change in traits and not …