We study the effect of firing threats and tenure in a virtual workplace that reproduces features of existing … organizations for which firing is not possible. Firing threats sharply decrease on-the-job leisure activities. Nevertheless …, organizations endowed with firing threats significantly underperformed those using individual incentives. Our analysis also …

rents and on the status quo level of the firing cost. In particular, we show that when the ring cost is initially relatively … some threshold value. Conversely, when the status quo level of the firing cost is relatively high, the preservation of a … conditions not necessarily favors the demise of high firing costs in rigid high-rents economies, because "good times" cut down …

zero and the optimal volatility of inflation is an increasing function of firing costs. The optimal rule should react to …

This paper studies the value of firms and their hiring and firing decisions in an environment where the productivity of …

ambiguous. Ceteris paribus, the effects are qualitatively similar to decreasing employment protection in form of costly firing … decreasing in the level of firing costs. This can therefore lead to a substantial failure in reaping the benefits from economic …

zero and the optimal volatility of inflation is an increasing function of firing costs. The optimal rule should react to …

We analyze the effects on local biomass supply, demand, and prices of co-firing requirement for existing coal …-fired power plants. The co-firing requirement is imposed on 398 existing power plants. The biomass feedstock can come from corn …: Biomass, co-firing, land-use, commodity prices …

and technical constraints of co-firing biomass with coal. Results are detailed at the municipal level indicating excess … capacity for biomass co-firing by plant and region to be satisfied by additional biomass sources such as biomass from forest or …

This paper studies the value of firms and their hiring and firing decisions in an environment where the productivity of …