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Common sense is a dynamic concept and it is natural that our (statistical) common sense lags behind the development of statistical science. What is not so easy to understand is why common sense lags behind as much as it does. We conduct a survey among Japanese students and try to understand why...
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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for … uncertain mapping between effort and output that inhibits reciprocity. This uncertainty is prevalent in creative and other …
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The business performance of firms in the creative high-tech sector shows much variation. This paper examines whether the geographical location of such business firms influences the performance of these firms. The overarching analysis framework of this paper emerges from the recently developed...
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Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...
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of uncertainty on travel times and the implications this has forestimations of travel time values has received much less … attention in the literature. In thispaper we compare various modelling approaches to address uncertainty and demonstrate … thatignoring uncertainty issues may easily lead to distorted estimates of values of travel time. Thisis of special relevance in …
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use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty … originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I argue that workers who take over part of the quantity uncertainty … from the employer get higher payments. Quality uncertainty on the other hand originates from the fact that employers are ex …
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