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Organisational structure, communication and group ethics

Ellman, Matthew; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

This paper investigates experimentally how organisational decision processes affect the moral motivations of actors inside a firm that must forego profits to reduce harming a third party. In a "vertical" treatment, one insider unilaterally sets the harm-reduction strategy; the other can only...

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World Population Growth and Fertility Patterns, 1960-2000. A Simple Model Explaining the Evolution of World’s Fertility During the Second Half of the 20th Century

Camps, Enriqueta - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

In this paper we attempt to describe the general reasons behind the world population explosion in the 20th century. The size of the population at the end of the century in question, deemed excessive by some, was a consequence of a dramatic improvement in life expectancies, attributable, in turn,...

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Promoting Rule Compliance in Daily-Life: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in the Public Libraries of Barcelona

Apesteguia, Jose; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

types. The characteristics we analyze are previous compliance, gender, age, and nationality. …

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The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Performance and Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field

Apesteguia, Jose; Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affect their economic performance. We study a large business … significantly outperformed by any other gender combination, both at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Looking across the performance … pricing strategies, invest less in R&D, and invest more in social sustainability initiatives, than any other gender …

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Status Anxiety Makes Women Underperform

Schram, Arthur; Brandts, Jordi; Gërxhani, Klarita - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

. However, little is known about gender differences in the performance consequences of status ranking. We find that in …

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Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Performance: The Influence of Boards, Ownership and Institutions

Desender, Kurt A.; Epure, Mircea - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

We systematically analyze how variations in board independence and ownership concentration and type affect corporate social performance (CSP). Drawing from the agency and stakeholder perspectives, we argue that recognizing differences in the distribution of costs and benefits to shareholders and...

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The Institutions of Roman Markets

Arruñada, Benito - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

I analyze the basis of the market economy in classical Rome, from the perspective of personal-versus-impersonal exchange and focusing on the role of the state in providing market-enabling institutions. I start by reviewing the central conflict in all exchanges between those holding and those...

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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit

González, Libertad - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...

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What Do Women Do?: World Population Growth and Fertility Patterns, 1960-2000

Camps, Enriqueta; Engerman, Stanley - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008

In this paper we attempt to describe the general picture reasons behind the world population explosion during the 20th century. In general we comment that if, according to some, at the end of the 20th century there were too many people, this was has a consequence of scientific innovation,...

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Tax Avoidance, Human Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth

Freire-Serén, María Jesús; Martí, Judith Panadés i - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

Human capital accumulation may negatively affect economic growth by increasing tax avoidance and reducing effective tax rates and productive public investment. This paper analyzes how the endogenous feedback between human capital accumulation and tax avoidance affects economic growth and...

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