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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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Indenture as a Self-Enforced Contract Device: An Experimental Test

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as "prepayment"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering...

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Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel?: The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment

Cadot, Olivier; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so, we eliminate a potential source of bias in...

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German MPs' Outside Jobs and Their Repercussions on Parliamentary Effort

Arnold, Felix - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

It is a longstanding debate whether members of parliament (MPs) should be allowed to follow sideline jobs in addition to their mandate. Critics claim that politicians already face binding time constraints and that moonlighting might lead to a neglect of inner-parliamentary duties. The purpose of...

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Improving Development Effectiveness through R&D: Dynamic Learning and Evaluation

Fiala, Nathan; Mangan, Cormac - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Research and development (R&D) is a common process in for-profit organizations. Despite the benefits, it is not routinely practiced in nonprofit organizations, in part because it is difficult to identify the effects of programs that are designed to involve individuals over long periods of time....

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The Cost of Climate Change to the German Fruit Vegetation Sector

Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper applies the concept of damage coefficients introduced in Houba and Kremers (2008) to provide an estimate of the cost of climate change - in particular the cost of changes in mean regional temperature and precipitation - to the fruit vegetation sector. We concentrate on the production...

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A Schumpeter-Inspired Approach to the Construction of R&D Capital Stocks

Bitzer, Jürgen; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

A new method for constructing R&D capital stocks is proposed. Following Schumpeter, the development of R&D capital stocks is modelled as a process of creative destruction. Newly generated knowledge is assumed not only to add to the existing R&D capital stocks but also, by displacing old...

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Corruption, Growth, and the Environment: A Cross-Country Analysis

Welsch, Heinz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given … corruption on pollution. The indirect effect via income is positive or negative depending on the income level. If negative, the … corruption. Because this relationship is particularly strong at low income levels, developing countries can considerably improve …

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"Robin Hook": The Developmental Effects of Somali Piracy

Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Naval counter-piracy measures off Somalia have failed to change the incentives for pirates, raising calls for land-based approaches that may involve replacing piracy as a source of income. This paper evaluates the effects of piracy on the Somali economy to establish which (domestic) groups...

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The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist and Transnational Crime Organizations: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results

Schneider, Friedrich; Caruso, Raul - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The financial means of international terror and transnational organized crime organizations are analyzed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...

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