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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers

Taylor, Eric S. - 2011

The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem …. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of … mid-career public school teachers where we can consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …

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News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions

Hirshleifer, David; Peng, Lin; Wang, Qiguang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how the social transmission of public news influences investors' beliefs and securities markets. Using an extensive dataset to measure investor social networks, we find that earnings announcements from firms in higher-centrality locations generate stronger immediate price and trading...

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Does Inflation Affect Earnings Relevance? A Century-Long Analysis

Binz, Oliver; Graham, John R.; Kubic, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Financial reports present assets, liabilities, and earnings on a nominal basis (unadjusted for inflation). Using a novel dataset of nearly a century of financial reports, this paper examines whether and how inflation affects the relation between accounting earnings and stock market value, i.e.,...

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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy

Keller, Wolfgang - 2008

This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...

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Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2006

This introduction to a special issue of EINT surveys a collection of ten papers that study various aspects of innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies have been conducted using data drawn from innovation...

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Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy

Garicano, Luis - 2005

We present a theory of the organization of work in an economy where knowledge is an essential input in production: a knowledge economy. In this economy a continuum of agents with heterogeneous skills must choose how much knowledge to acquire and may produce on their own or in organizations. Our...

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Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy

Antràs, Pol - 2005

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D. - 2004

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

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The Importance of Education and Skill Development for Economic Growth in the Information Era

Hulten, Charles R. - 2017

The neoclassical growth accounting model used by the BLS to sort out the contributions of the various sources of growth in the U.S. economy accords a relatively small role to education. This result seems at variance with the revolution in information technology and the emergence of the...

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FinTech Adoption Across Generations : Financial Fitness in the Information Age

Carlin, Bruce - 2017

This paper analyzes how better access to financial information via new technology changes use of consumer credit and affects financial fitness. We exploit the introduction of a smartphone application for personal financial management as a source of exogenous variation. FinTech adoption reduces...

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