Similar Search Results

Diversity, Social Goods Provision, and Performance in the Firm

Ellison, Sara; Greenbaum, Jeffrey; Mullin, Wallace P. - CESifo - 2010

The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social … revenues, costs, and profits. We explore this next logical question: how does diversity affect ultimate performance? We have a … office-level measures of diversity and performance over that period. We find some evidence that more homogeneous offices …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671735

Social Identity and Redistributive Preferences: A Survey

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - CESifo - 2013

Social identity has become accepted as a key concept underpinning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. It is important in explaining attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. We examine how economic theory measures social identity and its effects on preferences...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701093

Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving: Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - CESifo - 2014

Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103390

The Economics of Books

Canoy, Marcel F. M.; Ours, Jan C. van; Ploeg, Frederick … - CESifo - 2005

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766082

Distribution and Use of Knowledge under the “Laws of the Web”

Falkinger, Josef - CESifo - 2007

Empirical evidence shows that the perception of information is strongly concentrated in those environments in which a mass of producers and users of knowledge interact through a distribution medium. This paper considers the consequences of this fact for economic equilibrium analysis. In...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406284

Beyond the Dogma of the Fixed Book Price Agreement

Ploeg, Frederick van der - CESifo - 2003

-stocked bookshops than the diversity of published titles and that debutantes do not face big barriers to entry. One should be even more …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094354

The Distribution of Talent and the Pattern and Consequences of International Trade

Grossman, Gene - CESifo - 2002

In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of talent can be an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two activities, one in which an individual's contribution to production can be measured accurately and another in which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051520

International Trade and Retailing

Eckel, Carsten - CESifo - 2009

shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051532

Singin' in the Rain: A Study of Social Pressure on the Soccer Field

Priks, Mikael - CESifo - 2013

Although social pressure may affect the behavior of individuals, it is very hard to evaluate empirically. A soccer field is an attractive testing ground in the sense that both performance and social pressure by spectators are measurable. The drawback is that the number of spectators is an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010718531

Behavior under Social Pressure: Empty Italian Stadiums and Referee Bias

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Priks, Mikael - CESifo - 2007

when they are not. This indicates that referees exhibit home bias caused by social pressure from the spectators. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196191