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Many tasks can only be completed if several people contribute. Likewise, many institutions, e.g. voting rules, require the support of several people to implement specific decisions. In such situations, individual costs from supporting may decrease in the number of supporters. This holds true for...
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877864
A growing recent literature relies on a precautionary pricing motive embedded in representative agent DSGE models with sticky prices and wages to generate negative output effects of uncertainty shocks. We assess whether this theoretical model channel is consistent with the data. Building a New...
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estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
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a cost-saving ‘unethical' technology, consumer boycotts, and advocacy NGOs into a standard property-rights model of the …)ethical technology choices of integrated as well as independent suppliers. We identify the unethical outsourcing incentive as a novel …
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goods, from low technology (high cost) to high technology (low cost). The underlying intermediate goods technology evolves … output and average productivity, with stronger positive productivity effects for newly imported intermediate inputs. However …, domestic trade liberalization results in lower aggregate and average technology for domestic intermediate good producers …
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