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The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy : Evidence from Regime Changes in China, AD1000-2000
Bai, Ying - 2020
us an opportunity to investigate the political economy of administrative hierarchy. Using prefecture-level panel data and … exploiting regime changes during AD1000-2000, we find that gaining and losing importance in the political hierarchy led to the … rise and decline of different prefectures (measured by population density and urbanization). Moreover, political hierarchy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479176
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The Allocation of Authority in Organizations : A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
Bandiera, Oriana - 2020
hierarchy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479257
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Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies
Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2008
In a labor market hierarchy, promotions are affected by the noisiness of information about the candidates. I study the … higher survival rate. Further, even if more risk takers than non risk takers are promoted in the beginning of the hierarchy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464183
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Affirmative Action in Hierarchies
Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2005
If promotion in a hierarchy is based on a random signal of ability, rates of promotion will be affected by risk …-taking. Further, the numbers and abilities of risk-takers and non-risk-takers will be different at each stage of the hierarchy, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467472
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Organizing a Kingdom
Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576570
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Campaign Connections
Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287384
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Information Production and Capital Allocation : Decentralized vs. Hierarchical Firms
Stein, Jeremy C. - 2000
costlessly hardened' and passed along within the hierarchy. As a concrete application of the theory, the paper discusses the …, this is exactly what the theory would lead one to expect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471056
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On the Design of Hierarchies : Coordination Versus Specialization
Hart, Oliver - 1999
and others in specialization. Our theory throws light on the nature of hierarchy, the optimal degree of decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471397
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Mentoring and Diversity
Athey, Susan - 1998
This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472306
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Quality of Bureaucracy and Open-Economy Macro Policies
Bai, Chong-En - 2000
. In this paper, we study the possibility that quality of bureaucracy may be an important structural determinant of open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470984