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The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs

Garicano, Luis - 2000

In this paper, we study the changes in transaction costs from the introduction of the Internet in transactions between firms (i.e., business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce). We begin with a conceptual framework to organize the changes in transaction costs that are likely to result when a...

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Internet Car Retailing

Morton, Fiona Scott - 2000

This paper investigates the effect of Internet car referral services on dealer pricing of automobiles in California. Combining data from J.D. Power and Associates and Autobytel.com, a major online auto referral service, we compare online transaction prices to regular street' prices. We find that...

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The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives

Pierce, Lamar - 2020

Behavioral economists have proposed that loss-averse employees increase productivity when bonuses are "loss framed"--prepaid then clawed back if targets are unmet. We theoretically document that loss framing raises incentives for costly risk mitigation and for inefficient multitasking,...

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Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation : Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects

Grunewald, Andreas - 2020

This paper studies the intermediation of auto loans through auto dealers using new and comprehensive administrative data. The arrangements between auto dealers and lenders incentivize dealers to increase loan prices. We leverage details of the corresponding contracts to demonstrate that many...

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Reducing Moral Hazard in Employment Relationships : Experimental Evidence on Managerial Control and Performance Pay

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2013

Moral hazard is endemic to employment relationships and firms often use performance pay and managerial control to address this problem. While performance pay has received much empirical attention, managerial control has not. We analyze data from a managerial-control field experiment in which an...

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Repairing the Damage : The Effect of Price Expectations on Auto-Repair Price Quotes

Busse, Meghan R. - 2013

In this paper we investigate whether sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well-informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter their initial price quotes...

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Who is Exposed to Gas Prices? How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile Manufacturers and Dealerships

Busse, Meghan R. - 2012

Many consumers are keenly aware of gasoline prices, and consumer responses to gasoline prices have been well studied. In this paper, by contrast, we investigate how gasoline prices affect the automobile industry: manufacturers and dealerships. We estimate how changes in gasoline prices affect...

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Universalizing the Access to Long-term Care : Evidence from Spain

Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Spain together with Scotland are two countries that exhibit the largest expansions in long term care (LTC) in the last … care, which is now partially subsidized by a caregiving subsidy as part of SAAD. Long-term care spending in Spain amounts …

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Favoritism Under Social Pressure

Garicano, Luis - 2001

This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to...

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A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing : U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944

Caruana, Leonard - 2001

One of the most sustained uses of economic warfare by the United States occurred in Spain during WWII. We provide an … battles: (1) an oil embargo against Spain in the summer of 1940, (2) pre-emptive buying of wolfram (tungsten ore) during the … when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco …

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