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Anderson, Simon P; Erkal, Nisvan; Piccinin, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

together the following results: merging parties' profits fall but consumer surplus is unchanged, Stackelberg leadership raises …

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Rational Inattention and Organizational Focus

Dessein, Wouter; Galeotti, Andrea; Santos, Tano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

leadership naturally arise as a response to organizational trade-offs between coordination and adaptation. At the optimum, all … the expense of all others. Our results shed light on the importance of leadership, strategy and “core competences,” as …

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Why a Group Needs a Leader: Decision-making and Debate in Committees.

Dessein, Wouter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

I develop a model of group decision-making, in which a committee generates proposals and holds open discussions, but the ultimate decision is either taken by a leader (decision by authority) or by majority vote. Optimal communication processes are studied that combine both cheap talk statements...

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The Economics of Books

Canoy, Marcel; van der Ploeg, Frederick; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

and education in order to stimulate the diversity of books on offer, increase the density of retail outlets and to promote …

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Class and Tastes: The Effects of Income and Preference Heterogeneity on Redistribution

Fernández, Raquel; Levy, Gilat - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

diversity is low, the equilibrium policy is characterized by some amount of general income distribution and some targeted … diversity increases in society, the set of equilibrium policies becomes more and more tilted towards special interest groups and … against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, these policies are not sustainable. There exists a …

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2008 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture -- Comparative Economic Development: Insights from Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...

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Cultural Diversity, Status Concerns and the Organization of Work

Fershtman, Chaim; Hvide, Hans K; Weiss, Yoram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

status concerns. We then discuss the effects of such cultural diversity on wages and show that, for equally productive …

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Ethnic Inequality

Alesina, Alberto F; Michalopoulos, Stelios; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This study explores the consequences and origins of contemporary differences in well-being across ethnic groups within countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with satellite images of light density at night....

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Diversity in Organizations

Mello, Antonio S; Ruckes, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper develops a theory of diversity in work groups within organizations. Diversity is determined by the group …

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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

Alesina, Alberto F; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper has three goals. The first (and perhaps the most important one) is to provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic and religious composition at the sub-national level for a large number of countries. This data set allows us to measure segregation of different ethnic,...

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