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CEP discussion paper
 Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices: Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty? Phillipe Aghion, Roland Bénabou, Ralf Martin and Alexandra Roulet March 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1684:
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Tags: environment; product market competition; innovation
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CEP discussion paper
 Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers and Productivity Cheng Chen and Claudia Steinwender
January 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1674:
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JEL Classification: D22; D23; F14; L21; L22

Tags: import competition; productivity; family firms; managers
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CEP discussion paper
 Trade, Productivity and (Mis)allocation Antoine Berthou, John Jong-Hyun Chung, Kalina Manova and Charlotte Sandoz Dit Bragard
January 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1668:
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JEL Classification: F10; F14; F43; F62; O24; O40; O47

Tags: international trade; export demand; import competition; productivity; allocative efficiency; misallocation
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CEP discussion paper
 Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets Christos Genakos and Mario Pagliero
July 2019
Paper No' CEPDP1638:
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JEL Classification: H22; L1

Tags: pass-through; tax incidence; gasoline; market structure; competition
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CEP discussion paper
 A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and Heidi Williams
July 2019
Paper No' CEPDP1634:
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JEL Classification: O31; O32

Tags: innovation; r&d; intellectual property; tax; competition
Journal article
 Gender and Promotions: Evidence from Academic Economists in France
March 2019
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Tags: competition; gender gaps; professional advancement;
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CEP discussion paper
 Geography, Competition and Optimal Multilateral Trade Policy Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Matteo Salto
March 2019
Paper No' CEPDP1610:
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JEL Classification: D4; D6; F1; L0; L1

Tags: international trade policy; monopolistic competition; firm heterogeneity; pricing to market; multilateralism
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CEP discussion paper
 New Media and Competition: Printing and Europe's Transformation after Gutenberg Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold
January 2019
Paper No' CEPDP1600:
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JEL Classification: L1; L2; N0; N8; O3; O4

Tags: competition; firms; media; technology; institutions; religion; politics
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CEP discussion paper
 Monetary Policy, Product Market Competition and Growth Phillipe Aghion, Emmanuel Farhi and Enisse Kharroubi
December 2018
Paper No' CEPDP1590:
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JEL Classification: E32; E43; E52

Tags: growth; financial conditions; firm leverage; competition
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CEP discussion paper
 Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates and Giammario Impullitti
December 2018
Paper No' CEPDP1589:
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JEL Classification: F13; F43; F60; O40

Tags: economic growth; short- and long-run gains from globalization; foreign technological catching-up; innovation policy; trade policy; competition
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 Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals’ performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service Zack Cooper, Stephen Gibbons and Matthew Skellern October 2018
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Tags: cream skimming; hospital competition; hospital efficiency; market entry; market structure; outsourcing; public services; public-private competition; risk selection;
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CEP discussion paper
 Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion Matthew Ridley and Camille Terrier
September 2018
Paper No' CEPDP1577:
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JEL Classification: C10; C36; H23; H39; H75; I21; I22; I28

Tags: charter school; competition; fiscal spillover; achievement; synthetic control
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CEP discussion paper
 Foreign Expansion, Competition and Bank Risk Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte and Gianmarco Ottaviano
August 2018
Paper No' CEPDP1567:
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JEL Classification: G21; G32; L13

Tags: banks' risk-taking; systemic risk; geographical expansion; gravity; diversification; competition; regulatory arbitrage
Journal article
 The buyer margins of firms’ exports Jerónimo Carballo, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Christian Volpe Martincus
May 2018
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Tags: competition; firm heterogeneity; import-export relations; selection; taste heterogeneity;
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 Ownership and hospital behaviour: Employment and local unemployment. Andrew E. Clark and Carine Milcent
April 2018
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Tags: competition; france; hospitals; management; public employment; unemployment;
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 Smart but unhappy: Independent-school competition and the wellbeing-efficiency trade-off in education Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren February 2018
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Tags: human capital; independent-school competition; wellbeing-efficiency trade-off;
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CEP discussion paper
 Efficiency in Large markets with Firm Heterogeneity Swati Dhingra and John Morrow
October 2017
Paper No' CEPDP1502:
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JEL Classification: F1; L1; D6

Tags: efficiency; productivity; limit theorem; market expansion; competition
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CEP discussion paper
 What Drives Differences in Management? Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen March 2017
Paper No' CEPDP1470:
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JEL Classification: L2; M2; O32; O33

Tags: management; productivity; competition; learning
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CEP discussion paper
 Distorted Monopolistic Competition Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Suedekum
December 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1457:
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JEL Classification: D43; D50; L13

Tags: monopolistic competition; welfare distortion; intersectoral distortions
Journal article
 Competition and norms: A self-defeating combination? Genevieve Alberts, Zeynep Gurguc, Pantelis Koutroumpis, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Tamaryn Napp September 2016
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Tags: behavioural intervention; household energy demand; randomised controlled trial; information; norms; competition
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CEP discussion paper
 Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition Thierry Mayer, Marc J. Melitz and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
July 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1442:
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Tags: productivity; trade; competition
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CEP discussion paper
 Management as a Technology? Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
June 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1433:
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JEL Classification: L2; M2; O32; O33

Tags: management practices; productivity; competition
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CEP discussion paper
 The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen December 2015
Paper No' CEPDP1395:
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JEL Classification: Ill; L10; L11

Tags: health care; health spending; hospitals; prices; price dispersion; competition; market structure; mergers
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CEP discussion paper
 Media, Markets and Institutional Change: Evidence from the Protestant Reformation Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold
August 2015
Paper No' CEPDP1367:
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JEL Classification: D02; O3; N33; N94; P48; Z12; L82; C55

Tags: competition; firms; media; technology; institutions; religion; politics; high-dimensional data
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CentrePiece article
 Family business: management effort and firm performance Raffaella Sadun and colleagues analyse time use data on over 1,000 CEOs in family and professionalled firms Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
July 2015
Paper No' CEPCP450:
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CentrePiece 20 (1) Summer 2015

JEL Classification: M12; L2; D24

Tags: ceo; time; family firms; competition; productivity

This article summarises ‘Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs atWork’ by Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun, CEP Discussion Paper No. 1250.
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CEP election analysis
 Health: How Will the NHS Fare in a Cold Climate? Alistair McGuire and John Van Reenen
April 2015
Paper No' CEPEA028:
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Tags: hospital competition; market structure; 2015 general election; government policy; nhs
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CEP discussion paper
 The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change Claudia Steinwender
February 2015
Paper No' CEPDP1334:
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JEL Classification: F12; F13; F14; L25

Tags: import competition; technical change; productivity; exporting
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CEP discussion paper
 Flex Cars and Competition in Ethanol and Gasoline Retail Markets Juliano Assuncao, Joao Paulo Pessoa and Leonardo Rezende
December 2013
Paper No' CEPDP1251:
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JEL Classification: L11; L13; L62; L71

Tags: flex-fuel vehicles; gasoline; ethanol; price competition; spatial competition; discrete equilibrium price dispersion
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CEP discussion paper
 Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
December 2013
Paper No' CEPDP1250:
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JEL Classification: M12; L2; D24

Tags: ceo; time; family firms; competition; productivity

This paper has been published as:
,Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work', Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 31, Issue 5, May 2018
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SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
 Cheap Imports and the Loss of U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Abigail Cooke, Thomas Kemeny and David Rigby
November 2013
Paper No' SERCDP0148:
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JEL Classification: F14; F15; F16; F6; J31

Tags: international trade; import competition; job loss; inequality; manufacturing
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CEP discussion paper
 The Buyer Margins of Firms' Exports Jerónimo Carballo, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Christian Volpe Martincus
July 2013
Paper No' CEPDP1234:
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JEL Classification: F12; F14

Tags: firm heterogeneity; taste heterogeneity; import-export relations; competition; selection
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CEP discussion paper
 Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Selection: Why and How Heterogeneity Matters Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Matteo Salto April 2013
Paper No' CEPDP1206:
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JEL Classification: D4; D6; F1; L0; L1

Tags: monopolistic competition; product diversity; heterogeneity; selection; welfare
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CEP discussion paper
 The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition Swati Dhingra and John Morrow February 2012
Paper No' CEPDP1130:
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JEL Classification: F1; L1; D6

Tags: selection; monopolistic competition; efficiency; productivity; social welfare; demand elasticity
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CEP discussion paper
 Does Competition Improve Public Hospitals' Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the English National Health Service Zack Cooper, Stephen Gibbons, Simon Jones and Alistair McGuire February 2012
Paper No' CEPDP1125:
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JEL Classification: C21; I18; L1; R0

Tags: hospital competition; market structure; prospective payment; incentive structure

This paper is an extension of CEP DP 988
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CentrePiece article
 Big ideas: Innovation Policy John Van Reenen
October 2011
Paper No' CEPCP346:
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CentrePiece 16 (2) Autumn 2011

Tags: r&d; competition; patents; tax system
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SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
 From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich and William R. Kerr August 2011
Paper No' SERCDP0088:
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JEL Classification: R10; L10; H25; O10; J20

Tags: agglomeration; competition; firm dynamics; labor; germany
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CEP discussion paper
 Racial Discrimination and Competition Ross Levine, Alexey Levkov and Yona Rubinstein
August 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1069:
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JEL Classification: J7; J31; D43; D3; G21; G28

Tags: discrimination; imperfect competition; banks; regulation
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SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
 Tax Competition Among Local Governments: Evidence from a Property Tax Reform in Finland Teemu Lyytikäinen
June 2011
Paper No' SERCDP0082:
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JEL Classification: H20; H71; H77

Tags: property tax; tax competition; fiscal interaction; instrumental variables; spatial econometrics
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CEP discussion paper
 Seesaw in the Air: Interconnection Regulation and the Structure of Mobile Tariffs Christos Genakos and Tommaso Valletti
February 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1045:
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JEL Classification: L13; L51

Tags: interconnection; network competition; regulation; mobile phones
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CEP discussion paper
 Import Competition from and Outsourcing to China: A Curse or Blessing for Firms? Giordano Mion and Linke Zhu
December 2010
Paper No' CEPDP1038:
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JEL Classification: F14; F16; L25

Tags: import competition; outsourcing; china; skill upgrading; technological change
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CEP discussion paper
 Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the United States Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson and Daniel M. Sturm October 2010
Paper No' CEPDP1009:
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JEL Classification: D72; H11; H70; N12; O11

Tags: political competition; competition; government; us; economic development
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CEP discussion paper
 Productivity Spreads, Market Power Spreads and Trade Ralf Martin
September 2010
Paper No' CEPDP0997:
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JEL Classification: C81; D24; L11; L25

Tags: trade policy; productivity measurement; imperfect competition; productivity dispersion; productivity spread
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CentrePiece article
 In brief: Producing superstars for the economic World Cup Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo
July 2010
Paper No' CEPCP310:
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CentrePiece 15 (1) Summer 2010

Tags: skills; education policy; mexico; economic competition
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CEP discussion paper
 Does Hospital Competition Improve Efficiency? An Analysis of the Recent Market-Based Reforms to the English NHS Zack Cooper, Steve Gibbons, Simon Jones and Alistair McGuire June 2010
Paper No' CEPDP0988:
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JEL Classification: C21; I18; L1; R0

Tags: hospital competition; market structure; prospective payment; incentive structure
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CEP discussion paper
 The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen May 2010
Paper No' CEPDP0983:
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JEL Classification: J45; F12; I18; J31

Tags: management; hospitals; competition; productivity

This paper has been published as:
The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals, Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen, The Review of Economic Studies, January 2015
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CEP discussion paper
 Imperfect Competition in the Labour Market Alan Manning
May 2010
Paper No' CEPDP0981:
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JEL Classification: J0; J42; J63; J64

Tags: imperfect competition; labour markets; rents; search; matching; monopsony
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SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
 Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Evidence from the English NHS Patient Choice Reforms Zack Cooper, Steve Gibbons, Simon Jones and Alistair McGuire January 2010
Paper No' SERCDP0041:
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JEL Classification: I1; L1; R0

Tags: health care; quality; competition; choice; incentives; reimbursement
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SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
 Trade, Wages and Productivity Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Südekum
October 2009
Paper No' SERCDP0029:
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JEL Classification: F12; F15; F17

Tags: firm heterogeneity; monopolistic competition; general equilibrium; endogenous markups; gravity equation system; counterfactual analysis
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CEP discussion paper
 Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology and Competition: Evidence from France Paul-Antoine Chevalier, Rémy Lecat and Nicholas Oulton March 2009
Paper No' CEPDP0916:
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JEL Classification: D24; D40; F10; J24; L11; O33

Tags: convergence; productivity; tfp; globalisation; ict; competition
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CEP discussion paper
 Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle Monique Ebell and Christian Haefke
June 2008
Paper No' CEPDP0874:
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JEL Classification: E24; J63; L16; O00

Tags: product market competition; barriers to entry; wage bargaining
CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
 Urban Density and Pupil Attainment Steve Gibbons and Olmo Silva
May 2007
Paper No' CEEDP0080:
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JEL Classification: I20; R20; J24;

Tags: urban density and agglomeration; school choice and competition; pupil achievement
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CEP report
 Work-Life Balance, Management Practices and Productivity Nick Bloom, Tobias Kretschmer and John Van Reenen
January 2006
Paper No' CEPSP16:
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Tags: work-life balance; management practices; productivity; family-friendly workplaces; competition
CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
 Competition, Choice and Pupil Achievement Steve Gibbons, Steve Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva
January 2006
Paper No' CEEDP0056:
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JEL Classification: I20; H70; R5

Tags: competition; choice; primary schools; pupil achievement
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CEP discussion paper
 How Does Product Market Competition Shape Incentive Contracts? Vicente Cuñat and María Guadalupe
May 2005
Paper No' CEPDP0687:
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JEL Classification: J32; J33; M12; J41; J49

Tags: performance-related pay; product market competition
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CEP discussion paper
 Product Market Competition Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality María Guadalupe
May 2005
Paper No' CEPDP0686:
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JEL Classification: J31; J33; L22; D21

Tags: wage structure; returns to skill; product market competition
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CEP discussion paper
 Executive Compensation and Product Market Competition Vicente Cuñat and María Guadalupe
February 2004
Paper No' CEPDP0617:
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JEL Classification: M52; L1; J31

Tags: executive compensation; product market competition; performance related pay
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CEP discussion paper
 Survival of the Best Fit: Exposure to Low-Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of U.S. Manufacturing Plants Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen and Peter K. Schott September 2003
Paper No' CEPDP0584:
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JEL Classification: F11; F14 ; L25; L60

Tags: low-wage country import competition; heckscher-ohlin; manufacturing plant
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CEP discussion paper
 Productivity Convergence and Foreign Ownership at the Establishment Level Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and Helen Simpson
June 2003
Paper No' CEPDP0573:
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JEL Classification: F23;O33;O47

Tags: foreign direct investment (fdi); knowledge spillovers; competition
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