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This paper studies alternative empirical strategies for estimating the effects of organization design practices on …
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We study the impact of information and communication technology on growth through its impact on organization and …
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. We review a considerable body of survey evidence and theory that seeks to explain why developers participate in open …
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This paper considers the role of the allocation of scientific credit in determining the organization of science. We … examine changes in that organization and the nature of credit allocation in the past half century. Our contribution is a …
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A choice-theoretic model of household decision-making with respect to care-giving time allocations and the use of …
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This paper investigates whether peer effects play an important role in retirement savings decisions. We use individual data from the staff of a university to study whether individual decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account plan sponsored by the university (and the choice of the mutual fund...
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This paper studies the consequences of physician authority on pharmaceutical prescribing. Physicians engage in a costly process of particular conditions and characteristics. The relative efficiency of this matching process results from the diagnostic skill of the physician along with the...
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In its attempt to model financial markets and the behavior of firms, modern finance theory starts from a set of … paradigm may be criticized, however, because (1) the assumptions are descriptively false and incomplete, and (2) the theory … often lacks predictive power. One way to make progress is to characterize actual decision- making behavior. Efforts along …
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In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain … enough to approximate Kahnenman and Tversky's prospect theory and that for certain parametric values will yield the expected … explain the decision-making behavior of the majority of our subjects. Surprisingly, we find that the choice behavior of the …
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This paper is a theoretical analysis of the factors influencing production location decisions by a multinational corporation. It starts with a simple model of optimization for a firm facing the choice between exporting and producing abroad a single differentiated final product and then develops...
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