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Job Assignments under Moral Hazard:The Peter Principle Revisited
Koch, Alexander Karl; Nafziger, Julia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often placeemployees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second,demotions are extremely rare...
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Lab Experiments are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Falk, Armin - 2009
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
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Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good
Trivellato, Ugo - 2017
The balance between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information is altered when scientific research …
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The Internet as a Data Source for Advancement in Social Sciences
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
unemployment, consumption goods, tourism, festival winners and the like), nowcasting (obtaining relevant information much earlier …
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The New Economics of Religion
Iyer, Sriya - 2021
The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes – it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological origins of this field, and it is forward-looking in that it examines the insights and research themes that...
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Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining
Karagözoğlu, Emin - 2010
relative contributions of involved agents are blurred; either by lack of information about the actual performance of … coarse performance information lead to bargaining asymmetries. In addition, we find that bargainers' subjective entitlements … are also influenced by performance information and the randomness inherent in the production process. These differences in …
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Learning About a Class of Belief-Dependent Preferences Without Information on Beliefs
Bellemare, Charles - 2011
information about the (higher-order) beliefs of players. The approach can be applied to a class of belief-dependent preferences …
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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates …. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments … constrained capacity to collect and process information …
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Measuring Belief-Dependent Preferences Without Information About Beliefs
Bellemare, Charles - 2019
sequential two-player games without exploiting information or data on the (higher-order) beliefs of players. We show how …
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