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Social incentives matter : evidence from an online real effort experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2013

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702224

Peer Pressure and Productivity : The Role of Observing and Being Observed

Georganas, Sotiris - 2014

Peer effects arise in situations where workers observe each others' work activity. In this paper we disentangle the effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we manipulate the observability of performance. In particular, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059512

The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046576

Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity : Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives -- that take the form...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033504

The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948840

Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed

Georganas, Sotiris; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

Peer effects arise in situations where workers observe each others’ work activity. In this paper we disentangle the effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we manipulate the observability of performance. In particular,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734336

Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764293

Innovative Sales, R&D and Total Innovation Expenditures : Panel Evidence on Their Dynamics

Raymond, Wladimir - 2009

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …

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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity

Tiwari, Amaresh - 2014

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057269

Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir - 2015

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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