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The Causal Effect of Cognitive Abilities on Economic Behavior: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
forecasting task with varying cognitive load, we identify the causal effect of working memory on subjects' forecasting performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391901
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The Effect of Financial Incentives and Task-specific Cognitive Abilities on Task Performance
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
on performance is stronger under financial incentives as compared to flat rate pay. Subjects with more accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358647
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Financial Incentives and Cognitive Abilities: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
heterogeneity in performance. Using a forecasting task with varying cognitive load, I show that the effectiveness of high …-powered financial incentives as a stimulator of economic performance can be moderated by cognitive abilities in a causal fashion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090474
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Markup Pricing and Demand Uncertainty
Pasche, Markus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
In standard market theory demand and cost functions have to be known to compute optimal price or quantity responses. In case of risk or uncertainty the decisions depend on expectations, i.e. estimated parameters. Even in case of rational inference these expectations itself are uncertain, at...
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An Approach to Robust Decision Making: The Rationality of Heuristic Behavior
Pasche, Markus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
. Such errors occur when agents have limited information processing capacities. A performance criterion is provided to … rules due to performance differences. …
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What Determines the Technical Efficiency of a Firm? The Importance of Industry, Location, and Size
Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper investigates the factors that explain the level of technical efficiency of a firm. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 35,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2004. We estimate the technical efficiency of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835237
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Innovative start-up patenting: a new approach towards identification and determinants
Wolf, Tina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661183
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Works Councils, Training Activities and Innovation: A Study of German Firms
Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm's total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884480
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Do Firms Benefit from Complementarity Effect in R&D and What Drives their R&D Strategy Choices?
Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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Patent Citations, University Inventor Patents, and Survival in the German Laser Source Industry (1960-2005)
Luis F. Medrano E. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …
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