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Competition and Innovation : The Breakup of IG Farben

Poege, Felix - 2022

The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany's leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed...

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What's the Risk from Competing? Competition Aversion and the Gender Wage Gap

Choe, Chung; Jung, Seeun; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2022

Laboratory experiments involving a real effort task are conducted to examine the importance of gender differences in competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender differences in risk aversion play no significant...

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The Origins of Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Earnings Expectations : Causal Evidence from a Mentoring Intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2022

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … between the competitiveness of mothers and their daughters, but not between the competitiveness of mothers and their sons …

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Competition Reform and Household Welfare : A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...

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Distributional Effects of Competition : A Simulation Approach

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

Understanding the economic and social effects of the recent global trends of rising market concentration and market power has become a policy priority. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with...

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Competition and Hospital Quality : Evidence from a French Natural Experiment

Gobillon, Laurent - 2017

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital quality measured with the mortality of heart-attack patients. Our analysis distinguishes between hospitals depending on their status: public (university or non-teaching),...

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Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany

Heywood, John S. - 2017

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...

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Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour : Heterogeneity Across Gender and Outcomes

Filippin, Antonio - 2017

manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent monetary incentives. We find that competition …

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Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?

Babington, Michael - 2017

To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...

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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains

Marczak, Martyna - 2018

-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a …-sector level as a new competitiveness indicator where the relevance of trading partners is quantified by an appropriate value … competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries …

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