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Withering Academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
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The Leader as Catalyst - On Leadership and the Mechanics of Institutional Change
Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2021
degree of effective leadership and dramatically alter the prospects for change. The framework also naturally allows us to …
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Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity - A Field Experiment
Heinz, Matthias - 2018
We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
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Public Goods, Signaling, and Norms of Conscientious Leadership
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2017
I study a sequential-move public goods game based on the notion that leadership comes with an obligation; conscientious … leadership. Provision by the leader of an amount of the public good below a minimum imposes a psychological cost on the follower … conscientious leadership. I find that, under certain conditions, the follower's equilibrium contribution is an increasing or non …
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Decentralized Leadership
Delfino Silva, Emilson - 2016
This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide …. Without residential mobility, unlimited decentralized leadership is efficient only if the center implements redistributive … leadership is efficient if the center adopts redistributive interregional income and earmarked policies and there is a common …
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Efficiency and Environment Impacts of Electricity Restructuring on Coal-Fired Power Plants
Chan, H. Ron - 2013
We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses exclusively on coal-fired power plants and uses panel data...
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The Theory of the Firm Goes Global
Marin, Dalia - 2013
What insights can be gained from bringing the theory of the firm to the global economy? I discuss several new features … of the world economy that can be explained by incorporating the theory of the firm into the theory of international trade …
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Shifts in Organizational Form under a Dual Income Tax System
Thoresen, Thor O. - 2008
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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Buying to Sell : Private Equity Buyouts and Industrial Restructuring
Norback, Pehr-Johan - 2013
We show how temporary ownership by private equity firms affects industry structure, competition and welfare. Temporary ownership leads to strong investment incentives because equilibrium resale prices are determined by buyers incentives to block rivals from obtaining assets. These incentives...
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