Similar Search Results

Non-public competition and public school performance : evidence from West Virginia

Cebula, Richard J.; Hall, Joshua C.; Tackett, Maria Y. - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 12, pp. 1185-1193

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011811261

Private competition and market characteristics : evidence from public school efficiency

Misra, Kaustav; Grimes, Paul W.; Rogers, Kevin E. - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 3, pp. 364-379

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416047

Morals in multi-unit markets

Ziegler, Andreas; Romagnoli, Giorgia; Offerman, Theo - 2020

Recent work examines whether morals are eroded in single-unit markets (Falk & Szech, 2013; Bartling, Fehr & Ozdemir …, 2020). These markets ¨ provide market power to individual traders, which limits the roles of two forces; (i) replacement … the least moral trader determines quantities. In an experiment, we compare single-unit to (more common) multi-unit markets …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299826

Gibrat's law and the firm size : firm growth relationship in Italian services

Piergiovanni, Roberta; Santarelli, Enrico; Klomp, Luuk; … - 2002

Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327542

Committees as active audiences : reputation concerns and information

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2018

We study committees that acquire information, deliberate and vote. A member cares about state-dependent decision payoffs and about his reputation for expertise. The state remains unobserved, even after the decision has been taken. In such inconclusive environments, in equilibrium, a member's...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895815

Oligopolistic competition in price and quality

Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2008

We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376636

School choice and competition

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008

The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is … present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377312

Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2012

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378827

State-aided price coordination in the dutch mortgage market

Dijkstra, Mark A.; Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter - 2019 - Revision: July 2019

This paper shows how price leadership bans imposed, as part of the European Commission's State aid control, on all main mortgage providers but the largest bank shifted the Dutch mortgage market from a competitive to a collusive price leadership equilibrium. In May 2009, mortgage rates in The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979609

Are women status-ranking averse?

Brandts, Jordi; Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - 2019

Competition involves two dimensions, rivalry for resources and social-status ranking. In our experiment we exclude the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026084

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last