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The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives
Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009
This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...
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Reactivity in economic science
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700543
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What can economists learn from happiness research?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001
happiness research is able to contribute important insights for economics. We report how the economic variables income … some of the consequences for economic policy and for economic theory. …
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Awards in economics : towards a new field of inquiry
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009
. First steps towards integrating awards into economic theory are undertaken. -- Awards ; non-monetary incentives ; economics …Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics …
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Optimal asset allocation with factor models for large portfolios
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper characterizes the asymptotic behaviour, as the number of assets gets arbitrarily large, of the portfolio weights for the class of tangency portfolios belonging to the Markowitz paradigm. It is assumed that the joint distribution of asset returns is characterized by a general factor...
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Panel unit root tests in the presence of a multifactor error structure
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2008
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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021
Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...
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Monetary policy crisis management as a threat to economic order
Freytag, Andreas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
The paper analyses the effects of the monetary policy crisis management of the European Central Bank on the economic order of Germany. It is argued that in post-war Europe the German social market economy as designed by Eucken (1952) and Müller-Armack (1966) has been a core element of growth,...
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Covid-19 vaccination : the role of crisis experience
Gründler, Klaus; Hackenberger, Armin; Harter, Anina; … - 2021
during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory …
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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis
Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental well-being has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...
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