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We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms her human capital over time into what we call...
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We show that essentially every communication equilibrium of any finite Bayesian game with two players can be …
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example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely, project aid represents a more “centralized” type of aid. According to the theory …
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' consists of unverifiable information and the quality of communication depends on the conflict of interests between the …
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Evidence of owners of small businesses engaging in tax motivated shifts in organizational form is scarce. The main reason is lack of micro data enabling us to track tax-payers' movements across organizational modes. By exploiting new panel data that combine information from several public...
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Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within firms. We develop a model in which firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers. We test...
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involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …
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This paper characterizes geometrically the set of all Nash equilibrium payoffs achievable with unmediated communication …
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By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...
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We experimentally study optional costly communication in Stag-Hunt games. Prior research demonstrates that efficient … coordination is difficult without a communication option but obtains regularly with mandatory costless pre-play messages. We find … that even small communication costs dramatically reduce message use when communication is optional, but efficient …
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