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This study examines the various uses of subjective outcomes as a focus of interest for economists. It outlines the possible channels by which economists can usefully add to what are already massive literatures on such outcomes in the other social sciences. Generally we contribute little if we...
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the United States and France on whether workers who are more gregarious, as revealed by their behavior when they are not …
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The identification of age, cohort (vintage), and period (year) effects in a panel of individuals or other units is an old problem in the social sciences, but one that has not been much studied in the context of measuring researcher productivity. In the context of a semi-parametric model of...
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Franchise jobs are often described as representing the epitome of the quot;low roadquot; approach to managing employees: high turnover, little training, deskilled jobs, and little employee involvement, practices often seen as unsophisticated. Research on franchise operations suggests, however,...
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Using an extensive longitudinal data set on franchising firms, we show that established franchisors manage their …
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In recent years several countries have started massive highway franchising programs auctioned to private firms. In …
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to refute a number of existing theories of franchising that are based on risk-sharing, asymmetric information, and …
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Much of the economic literature on franchising has been concerned with incentive issues and how these are managed in …
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One empirical phenomenon that has received little attention in the franchising literature is the tendency for … individual franchisees to own not just one but several units of a given franchised chain. Most current theories of franchising … franchising is not a strategic delegation device, and that the location of units is not determined by the franchisee's desire to …
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We examine theoretical predictions and econometric evidence concerning franchise contracting and sales-force compensation and suggest a number of factors that ought to influence the contracts that are written between principles and agents. For each factor, we construct the simplest theoretical...
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