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Masella, Paolo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

In countries with high levels of ethnic diversity, “nation building” has been proposed as a mechanism for integration and conflict reduction. We find no evidence of lower intensity of national sentiment in more ethnically fragmented countries or in minority groups. National feelings in a...

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Trust and racial income inequality: evidence from the U.S.

Tesei, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …

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The broadening spectrum of reputation risk in organizations: banking on risk and trust relationships

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

an analysis of recent literatures on risk, trust and reputation that links it to broader developments in society. …Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk …. In a holistic, enterprise focused era reputation is a key strategic construct that can act as a boundary object linking …

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Banking on trust: managing reputation risk in financial service organizations

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

In this paper we introduce concepts that build a theoretical notion of reputation risk and establish the need to extend … our approach to managing such risk.. The existing literature on reputation risk has tended to be reactive and focus on … immediate business threats rather than trying to understand cumulative or constituent processes surrounding trust relationships …

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Naivete, projection bias, and habit formation in gym attendance

Acland, Dan; Levy, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We develop a model capturing habit formation, projection bias, and present bias in an intertemporal-choice setting, and conduct a field experiment to identify its main parameters. We elicit subjects' pre- and post-treatment predictions of post-treatment gym attendance, using a habit-formation...

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Unemployment insurance and cultural transmission: theory and application to European unemployment

Michau, Jean-Baptiste - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper emphasizes the two-way causality between the provision of unemployment insurance and the cultural transmission of work ethic. Values affect the size of the moral-hazard problem and, hence, the policy to be implemented. Conversely, when parents rationally choose how much effort to...

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Effort and comparison income: experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort, combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with the analysis of multi-country ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others’ incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The...

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The contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the field of human rights

Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

his paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his...

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From fiction to fact: the impact of CEO social networks

Kirchmaier, Thomas; Stathopoulos, Konstantinos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between a CEO’s social network, firm identity, and firm performance. There are two competing theories that predict contradictory outcomes. Following social network theory, one would expect a positive relation between social networks and firm...

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When pressure sinks performance: evidence from diving competitions

Garbi, Elni; Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Tournaments are designed to enhance participants’ effort and productivity. However, ranking near the top may increase psychological pressure and reduce performance. We empirically study the impact of interim rank on performance using data from international diving tournaments. We find that...

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