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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms’ international sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...

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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers

Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products. We take advantage of a unique dataset of Italian firms to identify governance regimes along suppliers’ technological capabilities and the level of explicit coordination in...

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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")

Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor); … - 2006

example of how markets, as opposed to private negotiations, can be used to determine efficient contract terms. -- law and …

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Research funding and regional economies

Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...

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Performance and risk taking under threat of elimination

Adams, Nathan R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017

We revisit the incentive effects of elimination tournaments with a fresh approach to identification, the results of which strongly support that performance improves under the threat of elimination and does so, but only in part, due to increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify...

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Temporary help agencies and the advancement prospects of low earners

Andersson, Fredrik (contributor); … - 2007

In this paper we use a very large matched database on firms and employees to analyze the use of temporary agencies by low earners, and to estimate the impact of temp employment on subsequent employment outcomes for these workers. Our results show that, while temp workers have lower earnings than...

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Transactions costs and the employment contract in the US economy

MacLeod, William Bentley; Parent, Daniel - 2013

In this paper we adapt the model of MacLeod (2007) to provide one way to formally implement some of Williamson's ideas regarding the effect of transactions costs upon employment relationship. We then explore the empirical implications of this model with a data set that measures job...

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The choice of the agenda in labor negotiations : efficiency and behavioral considerations

Königstein, Manfred (contributor); … - 2005

The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are negotiated simultaneously, is less frequently used on unionized markets than the less efficient "right-to-manage" model, in which wage is determined via bargaining and employment...

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Control rights in public-private partnerships

Francesconi, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...

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Contracts between legal persons

Kornhauser, Lewis A.; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2010

Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this … essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, and then use this framework to organize … the economics literature on contract. The title, Contracts between Legal Persons, limits the review to that part of …

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