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Economists in the PITS?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be …
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The Short-Termism of 'Hard' Economics
Noy, Ilan; Noy, Shakked - 2022
"Longtermism" is the view that the impacts of our actions on the very long-term future deserve prominent consideration in decision-making. We discuss the primary barrier that prevents academic economists from contributing to longtermist research: an overly rigid preference for methodological...
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A Journal-Based Replication of "Being Chosen to Lead"
Drazen, Allan; Dreber, Anna; Ozbay, Erkut Y.; Snowberg, Erik - 2019
: journal-based replication, in which the publishing journal contracts for a replication between acceptance and publication. We … discuss what we learned from a proof-of-concept journal-based replication at the Journal of Public Economics. Our experience … indicates that journal-based replication would be relatively straightforward to implement for laboratory experiments. …
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The Structure of Multinational Firms' International Activities
Davies, Ronald B.; Markusen, James R. - 2020
The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...
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Knowledge Transfers from Multinational to Domestic Firms: Evidence from Worker Mobility – A Replication-Robustness Study of Poole (2013)
Haller, Stefanie A.; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Balsvik, Ragnhild; … - 2023
This paper replicates Poole (2013) using comprehensive Norwegian and Irish register data. Our results largely confirm the evidence documented in Poole for Brazil which suggests that when workers leave multinationals and are rehired at domestic establishments, the wages of their new coworkers who...
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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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Does the John Bates Clark Medal Boost Subsequent Productivity and Citation Success?
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Torgler, Benno - 2013
Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients' subsequent research activity and status compared to a...
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Financial Constraints and Moral Hazard: The Case of Franchising
Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - 2013
Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of...
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Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives
Antón, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; … - 2016
We show theoretically and empirically that executives are paid less for their own firm’s performance and more for their rivals’ performance if an industry’s firms are more commonly owned by the same set of investors. Higher common ownership also leads to higher unconditional total pay. We...
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An Offer You Can't Refuse? Incentives Change What We Believe
Ambuehl, Sandro - 2017
Much of economics assumes that higher incentives increase participation in a transaction only because they exceed more … costly, higher incentives also change reservation prices to further increase participation. A higher incentive makes people …. Hence, incentives change not only what people choose, but also what they believe their choices entail. This result informs …
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