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Decision-Making in Complex Households
Rangel, Marcos - 2019
allocations is not rejected in models that allow more than two household members to have agency in decision-making. In contrast … decision-making within complex households …
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Discretion in Hiring
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2015
to forgo the potentially valuable private information of their managers. We study the introduction of job testing across … 15 firms employing low-skilled service sector workers. When faced with similar applicant pools, we find that managers who … appear to hire against test recommendations end up with worse average hires. This suggests that managers often overrule test …
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Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions : Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
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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Complexity and Choice
Salant, Yuval; Spenkuch, Jörg L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a model of satisficing with evaluation errors that incorporates complexity at the level of individual alternatives. We test the model predictions in a novel data set with information on hundreds of millions of chess moves by experienced players. Consistent with the theory, complex...
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Comparative Advantage, Complexity and Volatility
Krishna, Pravin - 2009
Less developed countries tend to experience higher output volatility, a fact that is, in part, explained by their specialization in more volatile sectors. This paper proposes theoretical explanations for this pattern of specialization -- with the complexity of the goods playing a central role....
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Complex Disclosure
Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2018
Disclosure policies have the potential to help consumers and make markets more efficient. Yet, the effectiveness of disclosure policies can be undermined if firms strategically make unfavorable information unnecessarily complicated to understand. To explore the incentives for using complexity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453045
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Innovative Originality, Profitability, and Stock Returns
Hirshleifer, David - 2017
We propose that innovative originality (InnOrig) is a valuable organizational resource, and that owing to limited investor attention and skepticism of complexity, firms with greater InnOrig are undervalued. We find that firms' InnOrig strongly predicts higher, more persistent, and less volatile...
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Organizational Complexity and Balance Sheet Management in Global Banks
Cetorelli, Nicola - 2016
Banks have progressively evolved from being standalone institutions to being subsidiaries of increasingly complex financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational complexity of the family of a bank is a fundamental driver of the business model of the bank...
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The Virtue of Complexity in Return Prediction
Kelly, Bryan T.; Malamud, Semyon; Zhou, Kangying - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The extant literature predicts market returns with "simple" models that use only a few parameters. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we theoretically prove that simple models severely understate return predictability compared to "complex" models in which the number of parameters exceeds the...
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Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan : The Influence of Colleagues' Choices
Duflo, Esther - 2000
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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