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Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches which compete with one another for union members whose...

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The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers: A comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2016

Since the early 2000s, there has been rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets in southern Africa. This paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion of supermarkets and the impact this has had on...

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Antitrust Failures: The Internet Giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...

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Antitrust for Internet Giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...

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Competition pressures and academic performance in Chile

Chumacero, Rómulo A.; Mardones, Juan Gallegos; … - In: Estudios de Economía 43 (2016) 2, pp. 217-232

The positive impact that competition has on performance in most industries has been questioned in the education sector … literature that relates competition and educational performance, and the data used to estimate that impact. We propose a … schools, and we apply it to estimate the effect of competition on educational performance in Chile, were more than 90% of the …

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New Paradigms in Banking, Financial Markets and Regulation?

Balling, Morten; Lierman, Frank; den Spiegel, Freddy Van; … - 2012

performance in financial institutions and in financial regulation and supervision all over the world. The contributors to the … decisionmakers have a better chance of showing good performance in the future. In essence, they are looking for new paradigms in …

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Vocational education and productivity in the Swiss business sector: An analysis based on firm-level and industry-level panel data

Arvanitis, Spyros; Bolli, Thomas; Wörter, Martin - 2010

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What Drives Differences in Management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

management on firm performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality …

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Innovation, competition and productivity: Firm level evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Peneder, Michael - 2016

to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS …

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