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Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questions relating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within and across firms, and draw common lessons from both sets. Field experiments within firms generally aim to shed light...

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Monotone Matching In Perfect And Imperfect Worlds

Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We study frictionless matching models in large production economies with and without market imperfections and/or incentive problems. We provide necessary and sufficient distribution-free conditions for monotone matching which depend on the relationship between what we call the segregation payoff...

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The Demand for Coordination

Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Jesus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities … coordination. In particular, specialization is often non-monotonic in the importance of coordination. (ii) Organizations exhibit … specialized task assignments, to very flexible organizations characterized by extensive task-bundling, intensive horizontal …

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Bureaucracy as a Mechanism to Generate Information

Novaes, Walter; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Firms that maintain no formal record of actions and events would hardly be considered well managed. Yet, organizations …

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Fighting for Talent: Risk-Shifting, Corporate Volatility, and Organizational Change

Friebel, Guido; Giannetti, Mariassunta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organizations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large …

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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, Ferdinando; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...

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Biased Contests and Moral Hazard: Implications for Career Profiles

Meyer, Margaret A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

We study the design of a sequence of two contests between a pair of identical risk averse employees whose effort choices are private information. It is optimal for the organization to `bias' the second contest in favor of the early winner - the reduction in second-period incentives is outweighed...

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Organizations and Trade

Antràs, Pol; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...

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