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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - CESifo - 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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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888455
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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
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Nominal and Real Exchange Rate Models in South Africa: How Robust are they?
Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012
This paper addresses difficulties in modelling exchange rates in South Africa. Real exchange rate models of earlier research seem to be sensitive to the sample period considered, alternative variable definition, data frequency and estimation methods. Alternative exchange rate models proposed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010554826
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Real Exchange Rates in Small Open OECD and Transition Economies: Comparing Apples with Oranges?
Egert, Balazs; Lommatzsch, Kirsten; Lahrèche-Révil, Amina - CESifo - 2007
We find that productivity gains in tradables cause an appreciation of the real exchange rate via both tradable and …
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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - CESifo - 2013
50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German …
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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?
Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014
Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888453
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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - CESifo - 2015
This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
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Exchange Rate Misalingment Estimates - Sources of Differences
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - CESifo - 2011
We study the differences of currency misalignment estimates obtained from alternative datasets derived from two International Comparison Program (ICP) surveys. A decomposition exercise reveals that the year 2005 misalignment estimates are substantially affected by the ICP price revision....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278133
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Construction of Composite Business Cycle Indicators in a Sparse Data Environment
Abberger, Klaus; Nierhaus, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2011
economic situation better than real gross domestic product (GDP). For this reason a measure of real gross domestic income (GDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278135