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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261988
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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763717
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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401783
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Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams: The Role of Social Ties
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by friends or teams composed by individuals not linked by friendship relationships. Students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559685
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Global Talent Flows
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William; Ozden, Caglar; Parsons, … - 2016
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584643
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Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018
maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors … possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the coauthorship network. Moreover, we analyze funding instruments for individual researchers as well as research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984476
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Does "Network Closure" Beef up Import Premium?
Muscillo, Alessio; Pin, Paolo; Razzolini, Tiziano; … - 2018
We investigate whether network closure in the supply chain can explain the heterogeneity observed in import premia … cooperation, computed in terms of network closure, are associated with increasing gains from imports and may promote the use and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984596
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Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael P. - 2018
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816659
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Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions
Bussolo, Maurizio; Commander, Simon; Poupakis, Stavros - 2018
Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network … our analysis is to identify how location in a network, including extent of ties and centrality, are correlated with firm … scale and performance. In a binary approach such network characteristics are omitted and the scale and economic impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873502
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Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
Benabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Tirole, Jean - 2018
By downplaying externalities, magnifying the cost of moral behavior, or suggesting not being pivotal, exculpatory narratives can allow individuals to maintain a positive image when in fact acting in a morally questionable way. Conversely, responsibilizing narratives can help sustain better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931630