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How to Share it out: The Value of Information in Teams
Gershkov, Alex; Li, Jianpei; Schweinzer, Paul - CESifo - 2014
We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes—a ‘team’—as endowed with individual and privately held information on the joint production process....
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Teams and Tournaments in Relational Contracts
Kvaløy, Ola; Olsen, Trond - CESifo - 2014
(a). The team’s efficiency may increase considerably with size if outputs are negatively correlated. Under (b) a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765495
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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance. The Role of Team Heterogeneity
Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - CESifo - 2012
. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010578149
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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
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year … 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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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - CESifo - 2013
There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723534
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Science vs. Profit in Research. Lessons from the Human Genome Project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - CESifo - 2001
This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766262
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Technological Change, Entry and Stock Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Transition in a Monopolistic Economy
Datta, Bipasa; Dixon, Huw D. - CESifo - 2002
valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …
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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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When is Ambiguity-Attitude Constant?
Eichberger, Jürgen; Grant, Simon; Kelsey, David - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies how updating affects ambiguity-attitude. In particular we focus on the generalized Bayesian update of the Jaffray-Phillipe sub-class of Choquet Expected Utility preferences. We find conditions for ambiguity-attitude to be the same before and after updating. A necessary and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539152
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First Impressions Matter: Signalling as a Source of Policy Dynamics
Hansen, Stephen; McMahon, Michael - CESifo - 2012
with experience. We then reject increasing confidence in private information or learning about the structure of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540726