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We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them … aggregation. On the one hand, the expected benefit from being informed is larger in case the experts are consulted individually …. Hence, the experts either acquire the same or a larger amount of information, depending on the cost of information, than in …
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as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
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to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert’s … provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert’s promise induces a commitment that triggers guilt if the promise is … experts make the predicted promise; (2) proper promises induce consumer-friendly behavior; and (3) higher interaction prices …
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Debt-to-GDP ratios have grown to unprecedented levels in many industrialized economies. This requires disciplined consolidation efforts which are, however, supposed to come now at the wrong time with the economic recovery being fragile. Against this background, we call for a global debt brake...
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experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a … difference-indifferences matching approach, we then find that firms that hire foreign experts - defined as employees eligible for … higher wages) and increase their exports of goods and services. -- foreign experts ; export ; immigrants ; productivity …
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We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest that tax evasion attempts - independently of whether...
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This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. The results are strongest among males and those with low educated...
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Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This paper suggests a way in which panels could choose...
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This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an "expert leader" model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and industry experience. After controlling for...
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Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce … "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three … selection and fixed effects regressions support the model's predictions and show that causality goes from good experts to fair …
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