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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition : The Effect of Trade Liberalization
Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...
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Deadlock on the Board
Donaldson, Jason Roderick - 2019
We develop a dynamic model of board decision-making. We show that a board could retain a policy all directors agree is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864484
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International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes
Helper, Susan - 2013
The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational producer of automotive sensors and actuators. We examine the...
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Industry Input in Policymaking : Evidence from Medicare
Chan, David - 2018
In setting prices for physician services, Medicare solicits input from a committee that evaluates proposals from industry. We investigate whether this arrangement leads to prices biased toward the interests of committee members. We find that increasing a measure of affiliation between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926406
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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment
Blinder, Alan S. - 2010
In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
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Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs
Acemoglu, Daron - 2008
A central feature of dynamic collective decision-making is that the rules that govern the procedures for future … decision-making and the distribution of political power across players are determined by current decisions. For example … dynamic collective decision-making: (1) a social arrangement is made stable by the instability of alternative arrangements …
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Collective Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision
Bowen, T. Renee - 2016
perspective, it may be desirable to allocate decision rights to the inefficient agent …
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Democracy for Polarized Committees : The Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants
Casella, Alessandra - 2016
In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also creates a complex strategic scenario: a hide-and-seek game between majority and minority voters that...
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Resolving Intertemporal Conflicts : Economics vs Politics
Millner, Antony - 2014
decision about how to manage a common asset. How should this be done? We examine two methods: an 'Economics' approach that …
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Conflicts and Common Interests in Committees
Hao, Li; Rosen, Sherwin; Suen, Wing - 2021
Committees improve decisions by pooling independent information of members, but promote manipulation, obfuscation, and exaggeration of private evidence when members have conflicting preferences. We study how self-interest mediates these conflicting forces. When members' preferences differ, no...
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