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Image versus information : changing societal norms and optimal privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb; Bénabou, Roland - 2016
information aggregation. We derive the optimal degree of privacy/publicity and matching rate, then analyze how they depend on the … in the fundamental or the image-motivated component of average preferences), privacy should generally be greater than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476544
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Corporate hierarchies under employee representation
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020
This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293686
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SAFE to update inflation expectations? : new survey evidence on euro area firms
Baumann, Ursel; Ferrando, Annalisa; Georgarakos, Dimitris; … - 2024
This paper provides new survey evidence on firms' inflation expectations in the euro area. Building on the ECB's Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE), we introduce consistent measurement of inflation expectations across countries and shed new light on the properties and causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535260
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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel : design and research potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using one-time surveys, but continuously over a number of years. Therefore, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), KfW Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900570
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Unwillingness to pay for privacy : a field experiment
Beresford, Alastair R.; Kübler, Dorothea; Preibusch, Sören - 2010
We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of …, participants bought from both shops equally often. -- Privacy ; willingness to pay ; field experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003978558
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Anonymous job applications of fresh Ph.D. economists
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Discrimination in recruitment decisions is well documented. Anonymous job applications may reduce discriminatory behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized experiment with fresh Ph.D. economists on the academic job market using data from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518411
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Anonymous job applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681322
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Microdata for social sciences and policy evaluation as a public good
Trivellato, Ugo - 2017
The balance between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information is altered when scientific research …, microdata should be characterised as a public good. The evolution of the rules and practices in the European Union (EU) for …' to include microdata produced for evaluating interventions (co)financed by the EU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738881
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Memorandum : Erfolgsbedingungen empirischer Wirtschaftsforschung und empirisch gestuetzter wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Beratung
Hauser, Richard; Wagner, Gert G.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
scientific users, extensive privacy protection provisions and restrictive information policy of government agencies. In order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294526
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Management compensation and firm-level income inequality
Frederiksen, Anders (contributor);  … - 2008
In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754931