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Bid Takers or Market Makers? The Effect of Auctioneers on Auction Outcomes

Lacetera, Nicola - 2013

. Much less work has considered the importance of the auction process. For example, in many auctions, auctioneers are present … and can impact the process of the auction by varying starting prices, level of price adjustments, the speed of the auction … explore the importance of auction process by testing whether auctioneers can have a systematic difference on auction outcomes …

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Organizations and Trade

Antràs, Pol - 2008

We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...

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Inertia and Incentives : Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Theory

Henderson, Rebecca - 2005

Organizational theorists have long acknowledged the importance of the formal and informal incentives facing a firm's employees, stressing that the political economy of a firm plays a major role in shaping organizational life and firm behavior. Yet the detailed study of incentive systems has...

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The Demand for Coordination

Dessein, Wouter - 2003

This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labor is...

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Organizational Economics and Physician Practices

Rebitzer, James B. - 2011

Economists seeking to improve the efficiency of health care delivery frequently emphasize two issues: the fragmented structure of physician practices and poorly designed physician incentives. This paper analyzes these issues from the perspective of organizational economics. We begin with a brief...

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Managers and the Management of Organizations

Roberts, John; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We critically review the emerging literature in Organizational and Personnel Economics concerning the role of managers and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and front-line employees. We are especially concerned with...

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Why Are Process Monitoring Technologies Valuable? The Use of On-Board Information Technology in the Trucking Industry

Hubbard, Thomas N. - 1998

to timely production data. Process monitoring' technologies give distant managers a window to production which can both … the short term. This paper investigates where and why IT-based process monitoring is valuable within the trucking industry …

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Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality

Costinot, Arnaud - 2012

countries specialize in different stages of a sequential production process. In Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang …

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Project Appraisal and Foreign Exchange Constraints : A Simple Exposition

Blitzer, Charles R. - 1987

In an earlier paper, we showed that the value of shadow prices depends on how the government contemplates re- equilibrating the economy to the perturbation associated with any project, except in the extreme case where the government has chosen all policy instruments optimally. Only under...

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The Social Cost of Labor, and Project Evaluation : A General Approach

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 1983

This paper develops a general methodology for analyzing shadow wage (and other shadow prices). Our approach is to identify those reduced form relationships describing the economy which are central to the determination of the shadow wage, and use these to obtain simple formulae for the shadow...

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