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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2011
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
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(Co-)Working in Close Proximity : Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions
Roche, Maria P.; Oettl, Alexander; Catalini, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-startup knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology co-working hubs in the United States. Relying on the random assignment of office space to the hub's 251 startups, we find that proximity positively influences knowledge...
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Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers
Guillouet, Louise; Khandelwal, Amit; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A distinct feature of MNCs is a three-tier organizational structure: foreign managers (FMs) supervise domestic managers … experiment examines the general skills assumption by asking prospective employers at domestic firms to rate hypothetical job … interactions with FMs. The second experiment examines the complementarity assumption by providing English training to a random …
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The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms
Figueroa, C. Jara - 2018
How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge carried by workers from one...
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Venture Capital's "Me Too" Moment
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Sweeney, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring...
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Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms
Caselli, Francesco - 2007
constraints on entry, but in addition it facilitates transfers of control of incumbent firms, from untalented to talented managers …
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The Risk of Caution : Evidence from an R&D Experiment
Carson, Richard - 2020
Innovation is important for firm performance and broader economic growth. But breakthrough innovations necessarily … require greater risk-taking than more incremental approaches. To understand how managers respond to uncertainty when making … projects. The results suggest that the risk preferences of managers in charge of research investments may have an oversized …
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Survey Experiments on Economic Expectations
Fuster, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this chapter, we discuss field experiments in surveys that are conducted with the purpose of learning about expectation formation and the link between expectations and behavior. We begin by reviewing the rationale for conducting experiments within surveys, rather than just relying on...
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Understanding Trust
Sapienza, Paola - 2007
Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question "Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" to measure the level of trust. Glaeser et al. (2000) question the...
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How Research Affects Policy : Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities
Hjort, Jonas - 2019
research findings. In one experiment, we find that mayors and other municipal officials are willing to pay to learn the results …, while not distinguishing on average between studies conducted in rich and poor countries. In a second experiment, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479891