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Delegation and recruitment in organizations : the slippery slope to "bad" leadership
Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022
We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...
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Signalling rivalry and quality uncertainty in a duopoly
Bester, Helmut; Demuth, Juri - 2011
This paper considers a market in which only the incumbent's quality is publicly known. The entrant's quality is observed by the incumbent and some fraction of informed consumers. This leads to price signalling rivalry between the duopolists, because the incumbent gains and the entrant loses when...
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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions
Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016
A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the "discouragement effect." Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable tie-breaking rules can reduce the...
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Strategic use of unfriendly leadership and labor market competition : an experimental analysis
Danilov, Anastasia; Hong, Ju Yeong; Schöttner, Anja - 2024
hostile behavior exhibited by managers. The motivations driving managers to adopt such behaviors are insufficiently understood …. To explore this phenomenon, we conducted a laboratory experiment examining the relationship between managers' use of … unfriendly leadership and labor market competition. We discern two labor market states: excess labor demand, where managers …
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Static Costs vs. Dynamic Benefits of a Minimum Quality Standard under Cournot Competition
Napel, Stefan; Oldehaver, Gunnar - 2007
Imposing a minimum quality standard (MQS) is conventionally regarded as harmful if firms compete in quantities. This, however, ignores dynamic effects. We show that an MQS can hinder collusion, resulting in dynamic welfare gains that reduce and may even outweigh the usual static losses. Verdicts...
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Span Of control and span of activity
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - 2012
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Are women less effective leaders than men? : evidence from experiments using coordination games
Heursen, Lea; Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2023 - This version: November 2022
We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating followers' actions. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...
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More on measuring budget-related rent-seeking
Katz, Eliakim; Rosenberg, Jacob - 1993
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Transfers or public good provision? : A political allocation perspective
Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 1994
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Human capital creates insider power
Muysken, John; Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
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