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Contracting with Synergies
Edmans, Alex - 2011
reduces a colleague's marginal cost of effort, and synergy to be the sum of the (unidimensional) influence parameters across a … depends only on total synergy and not individual influence parameters. An increase in synergy raises total effort and total … synergistic agents. An increase in the synergy between two agents can lead to the third agent being excluded from the team, even …
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Busy Directors : Strategic Interaction and Monitoring Synergies
Ljungqvist, Alexander - 2017
We derive conditions for when having a “busy” director on the board is harmful to shareholders and when it is beneficial. Our model allows directors to condition their monitoring choices on their co-directors' choices and to experience positive or negative monitoring synergies across firms....
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Synergizing Ventures
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC-backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...
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Migration and Wage Effects of Taxing Top Earners : Evidence from the Foreigners' Tax Scheme in Denmark
Kleven, Henrik - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of income taxation on the international migration and earnings of top earners using a Danish preferential foreigner tax scheme and population-wide Danish administrative data. This scheme, introduced in 1991, allows new immigrants with high earnings to be taxed at...
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Married to Intolerance : Attitudes Towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006
Voigtländer, Nico - 2013
We analyze under which conditions intermarriage can be used as an indicator of tolerance, and whether such tolerant attitudes persisted in Germany during the last century. We find strong evidence for the persistence of tolerant attitudes towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our...
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The Effect of the H-1b Quota on Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2017
The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B visa issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. However, this cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and...
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Foreign Participation in Local Currency Bond Markets
Burger, John D. - 2010
Countries that cannot attract foreigners to invest in their local currency bonds run the risk of currency mismatches that can result in painful crises. We analyze foreign participation in the bond markets of over 40 countries. Bond markets in less developed countries have returns characterized...
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David N. - 2016
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...
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What Explains the Flow of Foreign Fighters to Isis?
Benmelech, Efraim - 2016
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the link between economic, political, and social conditions and the global phenomenon of ISIS foreign fighters. We find that poor economic conditions do not drive participation in ISIS. In contrast, the number of ISIS foreign fighters is...
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The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants
Butcher, Kristin F.; Piehl, Anne Morrison - 2021
Using data on all new admissions to California state prisons in 1986, 1990, and 1996, we find that the foreign born have a very different offense mix from native-born inmates, with foreigners much more likely to be serving time for drug offenses. We document and discuss many of the substantial...
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