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Walker, Brigham - 2020

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …

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Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?

Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015

Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration...

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Management incentives, signaling effects and the costs of vertical integration

Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Strikes, scabs and tread separations : labor strife and the production of defective Bridgestone/Firestone tires

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Product demand shifts and wage inequality

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Incidence of strict quality standards : protection of consumers or windfall for professionals?

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi; Kanbayashi, Ryō - 2013

. Evidence suggests that the stricter quality standards increased the transaction price of used condominiums by 15% in the Tokyo …

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Consumers and the brain drain : product design and the gains from emigration

Kuhn, Peter Joseph (contributor); … - 2008

We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...

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Employee trust and workplace performance

Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian P.; Taylor, Karl - 2014

We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...

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Experts' awards and economic success : evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...

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Quality and price setting of high-tech goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using … thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of … sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and level of seller stability, are important factors for explaining price …

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