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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021

Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...

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Compliance in teams - implications of Joint decisions and shared consequences

Lohse, Tim; Simon, Sven A. - 2019

In today's business environment, team work is omnipresent. But might teams be more prone toward non-compliance with laws and regulations than single individuals despite imminent neg-ative consequences of uncovering misconduct? The recent prevalence of corporate delinquencies gives rise to this...

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Behavioral aspects of communication in organizations

Casoria, Fortuna; Riedl, Arno; Werner, Peter - 2020

This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on be-havior in organizational … research that tests whether com-munication can help to overcome coordination failure within organizations, and (b) studies that … analyze the role of communication in alleviating problems arising from information asym-metries at the workplace. The evidence …

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Communicating subjective evaluations

Lang, Matthias - 2014

Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...

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Conversations

Köster, Mats; Voss, Paul - 2023

We develop a theory of conversations. Two agents with different interests take turns choosing the topic of the conversation. Talking about a single topic allows them to delve deeper, making the conversation more informative (or enjoyable). To capture this dynamic, we assume that the marginal...

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Social preferences, trust, and communication when the truth hurts

Gehle, Jonathan; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2024

We investigate how heterogeneous social preferences affect the communication of painful information in social …

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The effect of tax havens on host country welfare

Gresik, Thomas A.; Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2015

Multinational corporations can shift income into low-tax countries through transfer pricing and debt financing. While most developed countries use thin capitalization rules to limit the extent to which a subsidiary can be financed with internal debt, a number of developing countries do not. In...

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The economics of a multilateral investment agreement

Che, Jiahua; Willmann, Gerald - 2009

This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single MNE. Under a multilateral agreement,...

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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance

Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...

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Attention and selection effects

Ambuehl, Sandro; Ockenfels, Axel; Stewart, Colin - 2018

Who participates in transactions when information about the consequences must be learned? We show theoretically that decision makers for whom acquiring and processing information is more costly respond more strongly to changes in incentive payments for participating and decide to participate...

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