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Keep it Down: An Experimental Test of the Truncated Uniform Price Auction

Doyon, Maurice; Rondeau, Daniel; Mbala, Richard - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

The introduction of a centralized institution for trading production rights in quota-regulated agricultural sectors can dramatically improve the flow of information among market pareticipants and increase efficiency. On the other hand, prevailing conditions in these small markets can provide...

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Piece Rates, Fixed Wages and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Shearer, Bruce S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

Data from a field experiment are used to estimate the gain in productivity that is realized when workers are paid piece rates rather than fixed wages. The experiment was conducted within a tree-planting firm and provides daily observations on individual worker productivity under both copensation...

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Compensation Policy and Worker Performance: Identifying Incentive Effects from Field Experiments

Shearer, Bruce S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

The role of field experiments in evaluating the effect of compensation policies on worker productivity is considered. Particular attention is paid to the ability of a field experiment to identify the effect of a permanent change in firm policy. While field experiments solve endogeneity problems...

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Estimates of Own Lethal Risks and Anchoring Effects

Armantier, Olivier - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

The paper reports on an experiment testing whether agents perceive correctly the lethal risks they face personally. The results suggest that subjects exhibit comparable biases when making predictions for their own-age-cohort, or for the entire population (i.e. agents overestimate rare risks, and...

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A Ricardian Model of the Tragedy of the Commons

Lasserre, Pierre; Soubeyran, Antoine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

This paper revisits the tragedy of the commons when agents have different capabilities in both production and encroachment activities, and can allocate their time between them. Under fairly general assumptions on production and encroachment technologies, an individual's expected income is convex...

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Optimal Justice in a General Equilibrium Model with Non Observable Individual Productivities

Lasserre, Pierre; Soubeyran, Antoine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999

In this general equilibrium model, justice and police institutions are treated as a mechanism that induces individuals to extend some desirable productive effort. This determines individual encroachment activities which in turn determine the proportion of aggregate production that fails to be...

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Marriage Market, Divorce Legislation and Household Labor Supply

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

This paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of the marriage market and divorce legislation on household labor supply. In our approach, the sex ratio on the marragie market and the rules governing divorce are examples of distribution factors. The latter are defined as...

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity

Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Loeff, … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2012

Using a unique panel data of Dutch innovation and financial variables we empirically investigate how financing and … innovation vary across firm characteristics. The study also tries to gauge the extent of market failure due to the presence of …, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics such as age, size, and existing leverage …

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Collaboration and contracting out versus funding and support Impact on the propensity to patent of Canadian biotechnology firms 1999-2005

Beaudry, Catherine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011

Using the four Biotechnology Uses and Development surveys of Statistics Canada, we analyse the relative importance of funding and support as well as collaboration and contracting, R&D and IP strategies on the propensity to patent of Canadian biotechnology firms. Our model accounts for the...

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