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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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We study the impact of information and communication technology on growth through its impact on organization and …
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This paper studies alternative empirical strategies for estimating the effects of organization design practices on …
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A number of studies claim that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, have power … aggregate pseudo market timing bias for a variety of predictive regressions based on managerial decision variables. We find that …
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differences in underlying individual characteristics, or by biased decision makers. Becker (1957) proposed an outcome test for … bias leading to a large body of related empirical work, with recent innovations in settings where decision makers are … exogenously assigned to cases and vary progressively in their decision tendencies. We carefully examine what can be learned about …
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errors in decision making are inevitable. Moreover, under the appropriate conditions, these decisions are random conditional … situations than would be possible with randomized control trials. This point is illustrated with data from medical decision …
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It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...
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In this paper we analyze the problem of whether and/or when to replace a leader (agent) when no monetary rewards are available, and it is the leader's competence rather than effort that is being evaluated. The only decisions that the leader takes over time are whether to undertake risky but...
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Because of differences in accrued gains and investors' tax-sensitivity, capital gains "lock-in" varies across mutual funds even for the same stock at the same time. Using this variation, we show that tax lock-in affects funds' governance decisions. Higher tax lock-in decreases the likelihood a...
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