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Nugent, Jeffrey B; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

traced to the differential organization of the coffee industry. We show that the different forms that the coffee economy took …

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Technology, Organization and Productivity in Services: Lessons from Britain and the United States Since 1870

Broadberry, Stephen N; Ghosal, Sayantan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

management, as a key factor. A model of the interaction between technology, organization and economic performance is then …

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The Organization of Delegated Expertise

Gromb, Denis; Martimort, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper proposes a theory of the optimal organization of delegated expertise. For incentive purposes, a principal …

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Managerial Leverage is Limited By the Extent of the Market: Hierarchies, Specialization and the Utilization of Lawyers' Human Capital

Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper examines hierarchies’ role in the organization of human-capital-intensive production. We develop an … equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law …

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Organizational Economics with Cognitive Costs

Garicano, Luis; Prat, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

and contract theory, applying organization theories in labor economics, and using these theories to interpret the wealth …

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Winning by Losing: Incentive Incompatibility in Multiple Qualifiers

Dagaev, Dmitry; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In sport tournaments, the rules are presumably structured in a way that any team cannot be better off (e.g., to advance to the next round of competition) by losing instead of winning a game. Starting with a real-world example, we demonstrate that the existing national rules of awarding places...

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IT and Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured management practices are tightly linked to higher levels...

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Professional service outsourcing, asymmetric information and wage inequality

Fuchs, William; Garicano, Luis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The economy is experiencing a large shift towards professional services. Markets for these services are characterized by large information asymmetries: the difficulty in providing the necessary advice, the quality of the advice, and whether a problem is solved may all be unobservable. Our...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization

Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Guided by theories of management by exception, we study the impact of Information and Communication Technology on … force, whereas communication technology is a centralizing force. Using a new dataset of American and European manufacturing … production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span, while technologies that improve communication (like data …

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