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We develop and test a simple model of limited attention in intertemporal choice. The model posits that individuals …
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In experiments, people do not always appear to think very strategically or to infer the information of others from their choices. To understand this thinking process further, we use "Mousetracking" to record which game payoffs subjects look at, for how long, in games of private information with...
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Incentive schemes affect performance and priorities of agents but, in reality, they can be complicated even for simple tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest in quantity and quality of output. We use data from...
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We examine the allocation of scarce attention in team production. Each team member is in charge of a specialized task … attention to each other, but attention is in limited supply. We show that when attention is scarce, organizational focus and … attention is evenly allocated to a select number of "leaders." The organization then excels in a small number of focal tasks at …
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simulation to provide substantial stabilization for the exchange rate while retaining considerable flexibility and robustness in …
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This paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects on employment of the introduction of flexible labour contracts (i.e. with low firing costs), which occurred in many European countries in the 1980s, which it then tests on Spanish data. The model predicts that such contracts increase...
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-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that location is influenced by both flexibility and strategic concerns. We show …
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We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex-ante) legal system and a flexible one (law set after observing current technology). The flexible system dominates in terms of welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at...
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Since the days of Henry Ford the automobile industry has served as a model of economic expansion and technological progress based on mass production. But from the mid-1970s, sweeping changes in markets and technology have transformed international competitive conditions and spurred automobile...
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Annex 1 countries). Less attention has been devoted to "when" flexibility, i.e. to the benefits of allowing emission permit …Most analyses of the Kyoto flexibility mechanisms focus on the cost effectiveness of "where" flexibility (e.g. by …
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