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Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - 2014
In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual property rights. My theoretical framework has general implications for endogenous sunk cost investments as a means of deterring counterfeiters. My model incorporates two layers of...
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From Imitation to Innovation : Where is All that Chinese R&D Going?
König, Michael D.; Song, Zheng (Michael); … - 2022
China during the period 2007–12. The estimated model fits the Chinese data well. We compare the estimates with those …
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Chinese Firm and Industry Reactions to Antidumping Initiations and Measures
Chunding, Li - 2013
Because of large and rapid growing export volumes and its formal status as a non-market economy; China has been the … are against China; India, in turn, is the largest source of initiation against China by number of actions. Here we explore … empirically. We use industrial panel data on all Chinese firms in the industry, foreign firms operating within China and state …
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Layoffs, Lemons and Temps
House, Christopher L. - 2012
We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of labor demand with adverse selection. Firms learn the quality of newly hired workers after a period of employment. Adverse selection makes it costly to hire new workers and to release productive workers. As a result, firms hoard labor and under-react to...
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Human Resource Management and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work...
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Personnel Economics : The Economist's View of Human Resources
Lazear, Edward P. - 2008
Personnel economics drills deeply into the firm to study human resource management practices like compensation, hiring practices, training, and teamwork. Many questions are asked. Why should pay vary across workers within firms--and how quot;compressedquot; should pay be within firms? Should...
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Capital Structure and a Firm's Workforce
Matsa, David A. - 2018
While businesses require funding to start and grow, they also rely on human capital, which affects how they raise funds. Labor market frictions make financing labor different than financing capital. Unlike capital, labor cannot be owned and can act strategically. Workers face unemployment costs,...
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People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards : An Empirical Analysis
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2019
How much do a manager's interpersonal skills with subordinates, which we call people management skills, affect employee outcomes? Are managers rewarded for having such skills? Using personnel data from a large, high-tech firm, we show that survey-measured people management skills have a strong...
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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs
Chi, Wei - 2010
This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...
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The Economics of Fraudulent Accounting
Kedia, Simi - 2010
We argue that earnings management and fraudulent accounting have important economic consequences. In a model where the costs of earnings management are endogenous, we show that in equilibrium, bad managers hire and invest too much in order to pool with the good managers. This behavior distorts...
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