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We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations … of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized … then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates …
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We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less...
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Organizations design their communication structures to improve decision-making while limiting wasteful influence … activities. An efficient communication protocol grants completeinformation payoffs to all organization members, thereby … overcoming asymmetric information problems at no cost. This paper characterizes efficient protocols assuming that: (i) some …
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significantly positive effect on game success suggests that female coaches should be more risk-taking. …
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In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
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If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
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confidence and examine their relation to entrepreneurial success in reward-based crowdfunding. Derived from ex-ante information …Self-confidence has long been regarded as one of the key qualities in determining entrepreneurial success. In markets … with uncertainty, like crowdfunding, entrepreneurial confidence is an important signal that lowers the information …
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choosing whom to hire, they receive information about the past scores of pairs, not of individuals. We vary the observability … of individuals' abilities by ordering pair members either according to performance, or alphabetically by nickname. We …
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inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …
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with supervisors. These findings suggest that communication and coordination costs increased substantially during WFH, and …
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