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Technological clusters in Brazilian agriculture : production and challenges
Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017
This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...
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Green start-ups and the role of founder personality
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2022
Green start-ups play a vital role in the needed transition towards more environmentally sustainable economies. Yet our understanding of why some founders start green ventures and others do not remains incomplete. We build on the cognitive and decision-making perspectives on start-ups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172103
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Farms versus firms in economic development : the assumptions and consequences of learning dynamics in agriculture and mnufacturing
Srinivas, Smita; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2015
-recognizes learning and innovation in agriculture and its crossover supplier segments with manufacturing. The sections analyze …. It then analyzes the learning implications of two theories - unlimited labor and induced innovation - on economic … models that connect learning and innovation to growth require closer attention and have important developmental consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057489
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Tax strategy disclosure : a greenwashing mandate
Bilicka, Katarzyna; Casi-Eberhard, Elisa; Seregni, Carol; … - 2022 - This version: 27.04.2022
Firms constantly face new and more stringent tax disclosure requirements and, increasingly, paying a fair share of tax is seen as part of corporate social responsibility. In this paper, we investigate whether mandating qualitative tax disclosure leads to intended outcomes, using, as an exogenous...
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Spin doctors : an experiment on vague disclosure
Deversi, Marvin; Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2021
Unfavorable news are often delivered under the disguise of vagueness. Our theory-driven laboratory experiment investigates this strategic use of vagueness in voluntary disclosure and asks whether there is scope for policy to improve information transmission. We find that vagueness is profitably...
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Communicating subjective evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2018
Consider managers evaluating their employees' performances. Should managers justify their subjective evaluations? Suppose a manager's evaluation is private information. Justifying her evaluation is costly but limits the principal's scope for distorting her evaluation of the employee. I show that...
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The organization of firms across countries
Bloom, Nicholas (contributor); Sadun, Raffaella (contributor) - 2009
We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...
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Price competition and reputation in markets for experience goods : an experimental study
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele K.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2015 - September 2013, revised March 2015
We experimentally examine the effects of price competition in markets for expe-rience goods where sellers can build up reputations for quality. We compare price competition to monopolistic markets and markets where prices are exogenously fixed (somewhere between the endogenous oligopoly and...
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Trust and racial income inequality : evidence from the US
Tesei, Andrea - 2015
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Beliefs and actions in the trust game : creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect
Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Huck, Steffen; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2012
In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's belief about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. A growing number of surveys and experiments ask participants to state beliefs explicitly but little is known about the causal relation between beliefs and...
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