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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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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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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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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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they win the contest for the alternative project. Merging firms internalize these positive and negative externalities they …
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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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numbers of neighbours) of the positions in a network. Although this allows for externalities, in the sense that the … preferences of a position might depend on the way how other positions are connected, these externalities can be taken into account …
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This paper studies the relation between optimal dam capacity and water management under rivalry uses and externalities …-linear building cost of dam capacity and externalities in a welfare optimization model. We obtain the optimal dam capacity for multi …
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In many countries, wind turbines are constructed as part of a strategy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. In this paper, we measure the external effect of wind turbines on the transaction prices of nearby houses. A unique house price dataset covering the period 1985-2011 is used, including...
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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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