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Measures of Participation in Global Value Chains and Global Business Cycles

Wang, Zhi - 2017

This paper makes two methodological contributions. First, it proposes a framework to decompose total production activities at the country, sector, or country-sector level, to different types, depending on whether they are for pure domestic demand, traditional international trade, simple GVC...

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Organizing the Global Value Chain

Antràs, Pol - 2012

We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...

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Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors' Monitoring

Ding, Wenzhi; Chen, Lin; Schmid, Thomas; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

What makes independent directors perform their monitoring duty? One possible reason is that they are worried about being sanctioned by regulators if they do not monitor sufficiently well. Using unique features of the Chinese financial market, we estimate the extent to which independent...

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality : Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas - 2010

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...

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Motivated Errors

Exley, Christine L. - 2019

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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What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016

How much do different monetary and non-monetary motivators induce costly effort? Does the effectiveness line up with the expectations of researchers? We present the results of a large-scale real-effort experiment with 18 treatment arms. We compare the effect of three motivators: (i) standard...

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Achievement Effects of Individual Performance Incentives in a Teacher Merit Pay Tournament

Brehm, Margaret - 2015

This paper estimates the effect of the individual incentives teachers face in a teacher-based value-added merit pay tournament on student achievement. We first build an illustrative model in which teachers use proximity to an award threshold to update their information about their own ability,...

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The Effect of School Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Outcomes

Hastings, Justine S. - 2012

school choice can affect student outcomes through increased motivation and personal effort as well as through improved school …

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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams

Ichniowski, Casey - 2014

individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … who joined elite teams after an exogenous shift in the number of foreign players participating on top club teams …, performance of players on national teams in the year just before and the year just after they join an elite club team, and …

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Chiefs : Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

The lowest level of government in sub-Saharan Africa is often a cadre of chiefs who raise taxes, control the judicial system and allocate the most important scarce resource - land. Chiefs, empowered by colonial indirect rule, are often accused of using their power despotically and inhibiting...

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