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The Economics of Faith : Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field

Augenblick, Ned - 2012

We model religious faith as a "demand for beliefs," following the logic of the Pascalian wager. We then demonstrate how an experimental intervention can exploit standard elicitation techniques to measure religious belief by varying prizes associated with making choices contrary to one's belief...

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Traumatic Health Shocks and Spiritual Capital

Cesur, Resul - 2018

services have grown substantially in recent decades, and the relative mental health benefits of religion as compared to secular …

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The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry

Lo, Andrew W. (ed.) - 1996

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Organizations, civil society, and the roots of development

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Wallis, John Joseph (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2017

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The Demand for Coordination

Dessein, Wouter - 2003

This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities … coordination. In particular, specialization is often non-monotonic in the importance of coordination. (ii) Organizations exhibit … specialized task assignments, to very flexible organizations characterized by extensive task bundling, intensive horizontal …

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Organizational Equilibrium with Capital

Bassetto, Marco - 2018

This paper proposes a new equilibrium concept - organizational equilibrium - for models with state variables that have a time-inconsistency problem. The key elements of this equilibrium concept are: (1) agents are allowed to ignore the history and restart the equilibrium; (2) agents can wait for...

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Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science : Evidence from Evolutionary Biology

Agrawal, Ajay - 2013

We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...

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Credit History : The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit

Gans, Joshua S. - 2013

This paper considers the role of the allocation of scientific credit in determining the organization of science. We examine changes in that organization and the nature of credit allocation in the past half century. Our contribution is a formal model of that organizational choice that considers...

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Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery : Spending Your Donations

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2011

This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid...

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On the Formation of Coalitions to Provide Public Goods - Experimental Evidence from the Lab

Dannenberg, Astrid - 2010

The provision of public goods often relies on voluntary contributions and cooperation. While most of the experimental literature focuses on individual contributions, many real-world problems involve the formation of institutions among subgroups (coalitions) of players. International agreements...

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