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Donado Gomez, Alejandro; Wälde, Klaus - 2011

Historically, worker movements have played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Firms traditionally oppose better health standards. According to our interpretation, workplace safety is costly for firms but increases the average health of workers and thereby the aggregate labour supply. A...

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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2022

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by...

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Punish one, teach a hundred : the sobering effect of punishment on the unpunished

D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Xie, Jin - 2019

Direct experience of a peer's punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of … facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we … observe the reactions to the same peer's punishment by listed firms with different incentives to react - state …

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Rhineland exit?

Bovenberg, Ary Lans (contributor); … - 2008

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Ownership concentration, monitoring and optimal board structure

Graziano, Clara (contributor); … - 2005

The paper analyzes the optimal structure of the board of directors in a firm with a large shareholder sitting on the board. In a one-tier structure the sole board performs all tasks, while in a two-tier structure the management board is in charge of project selection and the supervisory board is...

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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022

This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...

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Cracks in the boards : the opportunity cost of governance homogeneity

Maghin, Helene - 2022 - This version: June 23, 2022, first version: July 24, 2019

Does the composition of governance affect firm outcomes? We exploit the timings and thresholds of a gender quota in boards of directors and supervisory boards to causally determine the impact of a change in leadership on performance. Using a novel design and data on boards, we find that firms...

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The bright side of the GDPR : welfare-improving privacy management

Choe, Chongwoo; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shekhar, Shiva - 2023

We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...

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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011

We document that trust in public institutions - and particularly trust in banks, business and government - has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...

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The interrelationship between formal and informal decentralization and its impact on sub-central governance performance : the case of Vietnam

Thanh, Thuy Vu; Zouikri, Messaoud; Deffains, Bruno - 2012 - This vers.: November 2011

Formal and informal institutions are often viewed as complements or substitutes in empirical and theoretical works. However, no evidence of complementarities or substitutes is found in our empirical analysis of the interrelation between formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of...

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