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Waves of Creative Destruction : Customer Bases and the Dynamics of Innovation
Stein, Jeremy C. - 1994
This paper develops a model of repeated innovation with knowledge spillovers. The model's novel feature is that firms compete on two dimensions: 1) product quality or cost, where one firm's innovation ultimately spills over to other firms; and 2) distribution costs, where there are no spillovers...
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Social Learning and Peer Effects in Consumption : Evidence from Movie Sales
Moretti, Enrico - 2008
Using box-office data for all movies released between 1982 and 2000, I test the implications of a simple model of social learning in which the consumption decisions of individuals depend on information they receive from their peers. The model predicts different box office sales dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464814
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When Incentives Backfire : Spillover Effects in Food Choice
Angelucci, Manuela - 2015
How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457187
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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters
Helliwell, John F. - 2018
, and in the community. While earlier studies have found important age patterns (often U-shaped) and social context effects … couples, and for those who have lived for longer in their communities. A strong sense of community belonging is associated …
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Fraternity Membership & Frequent Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010
Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a … teammates and their supervisor) and external diversity (between teams and the individuals they canvassed). We observe team …
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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …
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Sorting with Team Formation
Boerma, Job; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Zimin, Alexander P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We fully solve an assignment problem with heterogeneous firms and multiple heterogeneous workers whose skills are imperfect substitutes, that is, when production is submodular. We show that sorting is neither positive nor negative and is characterized sufficiently by two regions. In the first...
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Finding Leverage Groups
Coleman, David E. - 1977
A brief discussion of recent methods using the Hat Matrix for identifying leverage points, and clustering techniques for finding groups of data points is presented. The problem of identifying leverage groups is addressed, and a heuristic algorithm for identifying both leverage points and...
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Production and Learning in Teams
Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2018
The effect of coworkers on the learning and the productivity of an individual is measured combining theory and data. The theory is a frictional equilibrium model of the labor market in which production and the accumulation of human capital of an individual are allowed to depend on the human...
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