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overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …
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case of perfect competition, an outside owner achieves the first-best; a cooperative typically does not because the rent …'s preferences may not reflect average preferences. Second, in the case where the members of a cooperative have common preference …
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We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...
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organizational economics and on cognition in organizational theory, we build a framework for the analysis of incentives that …
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This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labor is...
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Economists seeking to improve the efficiency of health care delivery frequently emphasize two issues: the fragmented structure of physician practices and poorly designed physician incentives. This paper analyzes these issues from the perspective of organizational economics. We begin with a brief...
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We critically review the emerging literature in Organizational and Personnel Economics concerning the role of managers and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and front-line employees. We are especially concerned with...
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distorts incentives. I assume that employment contracts are incomplete. In the model cooperative members pay in a capital … function of output. If the median member has less than average ability, the cooperative will vote for a redistributive schedule …, cooperative members will be reluctant to leave, since this entails forfeiting the dividends on their capital contribution. The …
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In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...
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This paper investigates the responsiveness of individuals' retirement expectations to forward-looking measures of pension wealth accumulations. While most of the existing literature on retirement has used cross-sectional variation to identify the effects of pension and Social Security wealth on...
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