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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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Cities have become playing grounds for competitive behaviour and rapid economic dynamics. But in many cities (or urban agglomerations) economic growth is mainly manifested in specific geographic areas, where creative people and innovative entrepreneurs are located. This paper offers first the...
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How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this …&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises from the productivity of these investments in R&D. The main result of … this analysis is that the relationship between long-run growth and uncertainty (on the productivity of knowledge creation …
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In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … transformed into marginal effects, in order to represent the changes in the probability of finding a negative significant … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …
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may increase the probability thatgood decisions are made. Our most surprising result is that when there are no direct cost … ofcommunication and communication can only help to identify the truth, more communication may reducethe probability that a correct …
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Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...
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This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization' (2007). Volume 62, pages 579-590.<P> 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...</p>
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effect on the average growth rate of output. This theoretical ambiguity result is not solely determined by the value of the … is, the growth-uncertainty relationship depends on whether returns to scale in knowledge creation are increasing or non …
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This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch and American workers. Participants were 988 Dutch and 429 Americans, 25-64 years of age. Analyses were designed to: (a) examine the extent to which structural variables were...
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countries. An overall evaluation requires that attention is given to the perception and endogeneity of uncertainty …
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