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Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Policy Makers, Advisors, and Reputation

Wrasai, Phongthorn; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

When hiring an adviser (he), a policy maker (she) often faces the problem that she has incomplete information about his preferences. Some advisers are good, in the sense that their preferences are closely aligned to the policy maker's preferences, and some advisers are bad. Recently, some...

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The Consequences of Endogenizing Information for Herd Behavior

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

In models of sequential decision making herd behaviour occurs if the signals smart (dumb) agents receive are (un)correlated and if agents have reputational concerns. We show that introducing costly effort to become informed about project payoffs (i) eliminates herd behaviour and (ii) shifts...

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Vanity in Politics: A Problem?

Suurmond, Guido; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

Can vanity do any good? It may seem obvious to answer this question in the negative, as economists have shown how reputational concerns lead agents e.g. to ignore valuable information, to herd, and to become overly risk averse. We explore how proud agents may be a social blessing. An agent may...

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When Galatea cares about her Reputation: How having Faith in your Workers reduces their Motivation to shine

Kamphorst, Jurjen J.A.; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We develop a theory of leadership that focuses on the role managers

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More means Worse – Asymmetric Information, Spatial Displacement and Sustainable Heritage Tourism

Caserta, Silvia; Russo, Antonio Paolo - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

serve high quality goods and keep up the reputation of the destination as demand continues to grow, producers need to gain a …

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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How do Parents allocate Time ?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...

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Simple and Complex Gift Exchange in the Laboratory

Heijden, Eline C.M. van der; Nelissen, Jan H.M.; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

requires not only mutual trust, like simple exchange, but also a substantial degree of coordination. We examine whether players …

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Trust and Economic Growth

Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …

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