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Organizational Decision Making Under Uncertainty Shocks
Ballesteros, Luis - 2018
In line with the fallacy of riskification of uncertainty by which decision makers believe that the effects of … markets, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and financial crises--as a problem of risk management. This is … institutional theory that points to stakeholder and institutional dynamics affecting economic incentives to invest in prevention and …
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Firms’ Management of Infrequent Shocks
Collier, Benjamin L. - 2016
We examine businesses' financial management of a rare, severe event using detailed firm-level data collected following …
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The governance of not-for-profit organizations
Glaeser, Edward L. (ed.) - 2003
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Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan : The Influence of Colleagues' Choices
Duflo, Esther - 2000
This paper investigates whether peer effects play an important role in retirement savings decisions. We use individual data from the staff of a university to study whether individual decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account plan sponsored by the university (and the choice of the mutual fund...
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The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms : Measurement, Determinants, and Implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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A Model of Firms' Decisions to Export or Produce Abroad
Weinblatt, J. - 1980
This paper is a theoretical analysis of the factors influencing production location decisions by a multinational corporation. It starts with a simple model of optimization for a firm facing the choice between exporting and producing abroad a single differentiated final product and then develops...
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An Economic Model of Amniocentesis Choice
Fajnzylber, Eduardo - 2010
Medical practitioners typically utilize the following protocol when advising pregnant women about testing for the possibility of genetic disorders: Pregnant women over the age of 35 should be tested for Down syndrome and other genetic disorders; for younger women, such tests are discouraged...
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Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times
Chabris, Christopher F. - 2008
We use two different approaches to measure intertemporal preferences. First we employ the classical method of inferring preferences from a series of choices (subjects choose between $X now or $Y in D days). Second we adopt the novel approach of inferring preferences using only response time data...
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Bayesian Learning in Social Networks
Acemoglu, Daron - 2008
We study the perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a model of learning over a general social network. Each individual receives a signal about the underlying state of the world, observes the past actions of a stochastically-generated neighborhood of individuals, and chooses one of two possible actions....
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Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions
Carroll, Gabriel D. - 2005
-inconsistency strengthen the normative appeal of the active-decision enrollment regime. However, financial illiteracy favors default enrollment … over active decision enrollment …
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