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Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation

Commander, Simon John; Estrin, Saul; De Silva, Thamashi - 2023

It has been argued that Asia's remarkable economic achievements of the past 50 years build on institutional arrangements very different from the West, notably the central role of business groups (BGs). As Asian economies move from extensive to intensive growth, we enquire whether the business...

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How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?

Egger, Hartmut; Jahn, Elke J.; Kornitzky, Stefan - 2022

We merge firm-level data on ownership linkages with administrative data on German workers to analyze how the position in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ownership linkages are not onedirectional, we propose an index of hierarchical distance to the ultimate...

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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014

Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...

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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation, and Trust

Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in trust … positively into norms and trust. Our study contributes to the literature on behavioural responses to institutional design and …

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Order Effects in Eliciting Preferences

Kopsacheilis, Orestis; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2023

Having an accurate account of preferences help governments design better policies for their citizens, organizations develop more efficient incentive schemes for their employees and adjust their product to better suit their clients' needs. The plethora of elicitation methods most commonly used...

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Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision

Abeler, Johannes; Huffman, David; Raymond, Collin - 2023

Using field and laboratory experiments, we demonstrate that the complexity of incentive schemes and worker bounded rationality can affect effort provision, by shrouding attributes of the incentives. In our setting, complexity leads workers to over-provide effort relative to a fully rational...

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Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination : A Field Experiment

Bjørnshagen, Vegar; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Ugreninov, Elisabeth - 2023

This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field experiment in which approximately 2,000 job...

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"Good Politicians" : Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance

Gulzar, Saad; Khan, Muhammed - 2023

How can we motivate good politicians those that will carry out policy that is responsive to citizens' preferences to enter politics? In a field experiment in Pakistan, we vary how political office is portrayed to ordinary citizens. We find that emphasizing prosocial motives for holding political...

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Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior a Randomized Educational Intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023

We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...

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Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender When Hiring : A Field Experiment in Spain

Goulao, Catarina; Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; … - 2023

Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer discrimination. A few studies have used field experiments to show that obese job applicants are, in fact, discriminated against in the hiring process. However, whether overweight job...

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