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We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...
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analyzes the influence of diffusion of costs in threshold public good games under incomplete information, and compares …
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seniors will not deliberately choose bad candidates if the only information asymmetry between the owner and the recruiter … information asymmetry between the owner and the senior employee regarding additional aspects of firm operations, however, moral …
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agents have unobservable intrinsic motivation levels. I show that the non-contractibility of effort (asymmetric information …
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This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes expected team production if (i) men and women have similar...
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The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...
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A rational-expectations equilibrium with positive demand for financial information does exist under fully revealing … average portfolio demand information in equilibrium if they can adjust portfolio size. More information diminishes the … endowments strongly differ from the average portfolio are worse off. Under fully revealing price, information market equilibria …
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When the information used by a principal to monitor an agent is private, and thus non-verifiable by a third party, the … information in order to collect a monetary penalty from him. Restoring credibility may lead to an extreme waste of resources … efficient outcome is feasible by exploiting the timing of private information. If the private information arrives before the …
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We investigate whether the simple plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in a large election with three …. With two alternatives and strategic voters, the simple plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in elections with … well, including those in which voters vote informatively. -- efficient information aggregation ; simple plurality rule …
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shown to have a significant nonlinear impact on the transmission of information - modelled using a semi-parametric partially …
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