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Diversity, social goods provision, and performance in the firm

Ellison, Sara; Greenbaum, Jeffrey; Mullin, Wallace P. - 2010

The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social goods and the stock of social capital. Indeed, in the workplace, cooperation, trust, and other social goods may be important elements of the smooth functioning of an office, but...

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Genetic diversity and performance : evidence from football data

Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021

The theoretical impact of genetic diversity is ambiguous since it leads to costs and benefits at the collective level. In this paper, we assess empirically the connection between genetic diversity and the performance of sport teams. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of...

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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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Advantageous smallness in contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2021

A standard result in contests is that a higher-ability player has a higher probability of winning the prize than a lower-ability player. Put differently, a stronger player has an advantage over a weaker player in a contest. There are very few exceptions to this standard result. I consider a...

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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?

Forlani, Emanuele - 2010

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

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CEO compensation

Frydman, Carola; Jenter, Dirk - 2010

This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others...

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Market competition or family ties : which prevails on Italian CEOs pay?

Graziano, Clara; Rondi, Laura - 2015 - This draft: June 8, 2015

The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed … definitions of competition: the intensity of import penetration, which accounts for price competition, and the intensity of R …&D and advertising expenditures, which captures the oligopolistic nature of competition when products are vertically …

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Stakeholder governance, competition and firm value

Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Marquez, Robert - 2014

shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition. Stakeholder firms are more (less) valuable than shareholder firms …

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Team production, gender diversity, and male courtship behavior

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2015

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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How do immigrants promote exports? : networks, knowledge, diversity

Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021

How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge...

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