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Vikander, Nick - 2009

This paper studies how morale in teams can break down. It interprets high morale as team members working together productively, either because of a sense of fairness or because of implicit incentives from repeated interactions. Team members learn that lay-offs will occur at a fixed future date,...

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Incomplete contract and divisional structures

Te, Bao; Wang, Yongqin - 2009

In this paper we want to analyze the internal divisional structure within an organi-zation in the framework of incomplete contract theory. We use the framework of Aghionand Tirole (1997) and define the managerial control structure as sequence of search.A key feature of this paper which...

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Economics: an emerging small world?

Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - 2003

This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands....

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Positional wages, market wages and firm size

Brink, René van den; Ruys, Pieter H. M. - 2005

We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The … optimal firm size. Using CES-production technologies we illustrate how firm size depends on labor substitutability, and show …

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The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success

Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Congregado, Emilio - 2013 - Version: September 2013

performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture …

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Mergers and innovation portfolios

Moraga-González, José Luis; Motchenkova, Evgenia; … - 2019

they win the contest for the alternative project. Merging firms internalize these positive and negative externalities they …

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Competing recombinant technologies for environmental innovation

Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2010

This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...

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The implementation of marginal external cost pricing in road transport

Verhoef, Erik T. - 1998

external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implementedas a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the … paper deals with thelong-run efficiency of marginal external cost pricing. It is shown that such prices notonly optimize … ahypothetical bench-mark only. The second part of the paper is therefore concerned withmore realistic pricing options. The emphasis …

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Measuring externalities in program evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - 2006

. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …

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General geographical economics model with congestion

Marrewijk, Charles van - 2005

We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...

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