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efficiency of collaboration and the credit allocation that arises after the completion of collaborative work. In this paper, we …
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An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …
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This paper analyzes the timing, pace and efficiency of the on- going job reallocation that results from product and … process innovation. There are strong reasons why an efficient economy ought to concentrate both job creation and destruction … policies can restore economic efficiency …
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question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents …
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This paper investigates the individual and joint effects of group incentive pay and problem-solving teams on productivity. To estimate models of adoption of these work practices and models of the effects of the work practices on productivity, we constructed a data set on the operations of 34...
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perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data - the disclosures of author contributions on …
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We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
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Naively present-biased agents are known to be severe procrastinators. In team settings, procrastination can represent a … form of free-riding that, in excess, can jeopardize a team's ability to meet a deadline. Here we show how naivete and … present bias, despite their reputations, can be desirable traits in a teammate, enabling a team to optimize its performance …
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We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the...
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In an earlier paper, we showed that the value of shadow prices depends on how the government contemplates re- equilibrating the economy to the perturbation associated with any project, except in the extreme case where the government has chosen all policy instruments optimally. Only under...
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