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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2021
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325062
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On the Validity of Using Webpage Texts to Identify the Target Population of a Survey : An Application to Detect Online Platforms
Daas, Piet; Hassink, Wolter H.J; Klijs, Bart - 2023
A statistical classification model was developed to identify online platform organizations based on the texts on their website. The model was subsequently used to identify all (potential) platform organizations with a website included in the Dutch Business Register. The empirical outcomes of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014257390
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Strategic Incomplete Contracts : Theory and Experiments
Erkal, Nisvan - 2015
We develop a model of strategic contractual incompleteness that identifies conditions under which principals might omit even costlessly verifiable terms. We then use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of the model. While it is well known that verifiability imperfections can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031190
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Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis : Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages
Kocher, Martin G. - 2012
. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108598
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Discretionary Latitude and Relational Contracting
Wu, Steven Y.; Roe, Brian E. - 2021
We use economic experiments to examine the nature of relational trading under a menu of incomplete contracts ranging from the repeat purchase mechanism of Klein and Leffler (1981) to highly incomplete contracts that are completely unenforceable by third-parties. Our results suggest that, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316957
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2018
behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910745
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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving
Tonin, Mirco - 2015
This paper presents results from a modified dictator experiment aimed at distinguishing and quantifying the two … intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038284
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Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences
John, Katrin - 2017
We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946582
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117607