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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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; delegation problem ; moral hazard ; search theory …
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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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public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …
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This survey is devoted to the statistical analysis of duration models and point processes. The first section introduces specific concepts and definitions for single-spell duration models. Section two is devoted to the presentation of conditional duration models which incorporate the effects of...
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The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often place employees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second, demotions are extremely rare. Why do organizations not correct 'wrong' promotion decision? This paper...
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This paper examines the effects of the Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using panel data from the British...
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they are really the most challenging ones for conventional theory. New developments are emerging both at the theoretical …
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Traditional instrumental variable estimators do not generally estimate effects for the treated population but for the unobserved population of compliers. They do identify effects for the treated when there is one-sided perfect non-compliance. However, this property is lost when covariates are...
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