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behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We …
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We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our baseline treatment we observe that the second...
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The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …
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We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...
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We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and …
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Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary … affected neither by the competitor's group identity nor by the individual's beliefs about others' misreporting behavior. This … suggests that in competitive settings, unethical behavior is mainly driven by an unconditional desire to win …
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degree of moral behavior when subjects make decisions that can generate negative externalities on uninvolved parties … different interventions to a kind of robustness check. We find that the threat of monetary punishment promotes moral behavior in …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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messages that seek to alter people's perceptions of what constitutes "normal" behavior or values among their peers. The model …
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