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research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …
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This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural … productivity. Overall, we find statistically significant declines in agricultural productivity that is associated with both floods …
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suggests a negative effect on total factor productivity. Using newly collected longitudinal data on pensioners, we quantify … pensioner-worker ratio decreases factor productivity by 5-6%. The effect is stronger when production is labor intensive and …
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This paper introduces a new rationale for the existence of Directors' and Officers' (D&O) insurance. We use a model with volatile stock markets where shareholders design compensation schemes that incentivize managers to stimulate short-term increases in stock prices that do not maximize long run...
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Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...
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aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … productivity and shipping costs using Chilean plant-level data for a set of manufacturing industries. The estimated model is … consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of …
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countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity …. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account for productivity effects, and their results may overstate the role … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …
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productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …
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We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....
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Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and approaches of the empirical studies. In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis in order to investigate the role of the methodological choices of these empirical studies in finding...
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