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consistent with the theory) is that the adoption of both self-managed online teams and cross-functional offline teams usually … in firms with joint labor-management committees. We also confirm implications from our theory that firms in more …
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We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but … leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … integration or non-integration is optimal. Our theory thus provides a simple answer to Williamson's selective-interventionʺ puzzle …
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The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their …-facilitating accounting information on the profit margins of individual products and (ii) whether they receive performance pay based on an …
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We use matched employer-employee data and firm balance sheet data to investigate the importance of firm productivity and firm labor market power in explaining firm heterogeneity in wage formation. We use a linear regression model with one interacted high dimensional fixed effect to estimate...
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We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely...
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The Global Crisis demonstrated to the world that Ratings Agencies had misled the public about the stability of financial institutions. The Finance literature had decided that it was impossible to have bubbles in financial markets and any surge in the stock market would be self-correcting. Recent...
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We show that the main nonparametric identification finding of Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b, Econometrica) for the effect of a timing-chosen treatment on an event duration of interest does not hold. The main problem is that the identification is based on the competing-risks identification...
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In their IZA Discussion Paper 10247, Johansson and Lee claim that the main result (Proposition 3) in Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) does not hold. We show that their claim is incorrect. At a certain point within their line of reasoning, they make a rather basic error while transforming one...
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This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in their preferences for redistribution. The findings suggest that for most people, the motivation...
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Recent validation studies show that survey misreporting is pervasive and biases common analyses. Addressing this problem is further complicated, because validation data are usually convenience samples and access is restricted, making them more suitable to document than to solve the problem. I...
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