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Hidden action, identification, and organization design

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010

. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any … moral hazard models yields insights into optimal organization design, uncovers the reason why certain organization designs …-tasking problem. -- moral hazard ; hidden action ; implementation ; multi-tasking ; identification by organization design …

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Behavioral aspects of communication in organizations

Casoria, Fortuna; Riedl, Arno; Werner, Peter - 2020

This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on behavior in organizational settings. Two main classes of studies are identified: (a) studies on coordination and competition, which include experimental research that tests whether communication can help to...

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Corporate hierarchies under employee representation

Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020

This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...

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Organisational accreditation and worker upskilling in Britain

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2018

Britain has lagged behind the G7 countries in labour productivity in recent years. There is also an emerging concern about a potential post-Brexit skills deficit. Upskilling the existing workforce via on-the-job training may be a vital policy tool available. Using a panel of organisations and...

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Labor market imperfections and the firm's wage setting policy

Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro - 2016

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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Marital matching, economies of scale and intrahousehold allocations

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Surana, Khushboo; … - 2016

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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On measuring uncertainty : snakes and ladders

Junankar, Pramod N. - 2016

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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On nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models

Johansson, Per-Olov; Lee, Myoung-jae - 2016

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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Rebuttal of "on nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models"

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

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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