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Niepmann, Friederike - 2013

Banking across borders has risen substantially over the past two decades. Yet there is significant heterogeneity in the international and global activities of banks across countries. This paper develops and tests a theoretical model that explains this variation from an international trade theory...

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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs : The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework

Torre, Augusto de la - 2009

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to lack adequate financing, which hampers their growth. As a consequence, governments have implemented a number of programs to foster SME lending and attention has focused on...

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Margins of International Banking : Is There a Productivity Pecking Order in Banking, Too?

Buch, Claudia M. - 2013

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...

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Shop Around and You Pay More

Yan, Ji; Tian, Kun; Dixon, Huw D.; Heravi, Saeed; … - CESifo - 2014

We examine the relationship between the prices paid by households and their shopping patterns measured in terms of shopping frequency and the range of stores visited. We use the TNS data which allows us to control for household heterogeneity. The main contribution of the paper is that we find...

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A Theory of Crowdfunding - A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard

Strausz, Roland - 2016

Crowdfunding provides innovation in enabling entrepreneurs to contract with consumers before investment. Under aggregate demand uncertainty, this improves screening for valuable projects. Entrepreneurial moral hazard and private cost information threatens this benefit. Despite these threats,...

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Sales Performance and Social Preferences

Essl, Andrea; Bieberstein, Frauke von; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2021

We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in other-regarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take the welfare of others into account but a significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior....

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Yan, Ji - 2014

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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Marchand, Beyza Ural - CESifo - 2013

the effect of connecting a household to the grid and of the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The … quality of electricity (in terms of fewer outages and more hours per day) increases non-agricultural incomes by about 28 …

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using data on patents granted to small firms and individuals, we … find evidence that high-quality inventions are sold under preemptive bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems …

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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2009

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …

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