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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science
Häussler, Carolin - 2016
perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data - the disclosures of author contributions on …
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Ode to the sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation
Gneezy, Uri - 2014
The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458432
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The Virtue of Complexity in Return Prediction
Kelly, Bryan T.; Malamud, Semyon; Zhou, Kangying - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The extant literature predicts market returns with "simple" models that use only a few parameters. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we theoretically prove that simple models severely understate return predictability compared to "complex" models in which the number of parameters exceeds the...
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Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine : An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States
Meltzer, David O. - 2010
General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who care for their patients in both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care (hospitalists) and ambulatory-based care primary care...
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Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs : Evidence From U.S. Law Firms
Garicano, Luis - 2009
coordination costs fell during this period. We then propose a "hierarchical production function" in which output is the product of … coordination costs fell broadly and steadily during this period, so that hiring one's first associate leveraged a partner's skill …
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Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition : Unintended Consequences of a Common Retail Rate Design
Bailey, Megan R.; Brown, David P.; Meyers, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
distribution network upgrades. In contrast, centrally managed charging solves the coordination problem, reducing transformer …
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Communication within Firms : Evidence from CEO Turnovers
Impink, Stephen Michael; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper uses novel, firm-level measures derived from communications metadata before and after a CEO transition in 102 firms to study if CEO turnover impacts employees' communication flows. We find that CEO turnover leads to an initial decrease in intra-firm communication, followed by a...
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Multinational Corporations, Transfer Prices, and Taxes : Evidence from the U.S. Petroleum Industry
Bernard, Jean-Thomas - 1989
Economic research on transfer-pricing behavior by multinational corporadons has emphasized theoretical modeling and institutional description. This paper presents the fiit systematic empirical analysis of transfer prices, using data from the petroleum industry. On the basis of oil imported into...
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The Impact of Removing Tax Preferences for U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Production : Measuring Tax Subsidies by an Equivalent Price Impact Approach
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2016
This paper presents a novel methodology for estimating impacts on domestic supply of oil and natural gas arising from changes in the tax treatment of oil and gas production. It corrects a downward bias when the ratio of aggregate tax expenditures to domestic production is used to measure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456142
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Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016
possibly preferences that are closer to those of Democrats. We interpret these results as evidence that cooperation is mostly …
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