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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2013
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received...
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Giving away the game? : The impact of the disclosure effect on the patenting decision
Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra K. - 2012
concerned with the patenting decision, we take into account that a disclosure effect may decrease the merits of patenting by …. An empirical investigation of the theoretical results finds support for the proposed effects. -- Patenting decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509671
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
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Short-term borrowing for long-term projects : are family businesses more susceptible to “irrational” financing choices?
Peters, Bettina; Westerheide, Peter - 2011
There are noticeable differences between the roles that various forms of credit financing play in family businesses and in other businesses. Family businesses take out more often bank loans specifically to finance investments and innovations, and they particularly often resort to the short-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901888
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Scientific excellence and extramural research grants : beggars can’t be choosers?
Grimpe, Christoph - 2010
Several reviews and impact assessment studies have concluded that the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6) succeeded in fostering scientific excellence and attracting the “A Team” in public science. However, these studies typically fail to contrast their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969874
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Do environmental benefits matter? : A choice experiment among house owners in Germany
Achtnicht, Martin - 2010
Residential buildings strongly contribute to global CO2 emissions due to the high energy demand for electricity and heating, particularly in industrialised countries. Within the EU, decentralised heat generation is of particular relevance for future climate policy, as its emissions are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702158
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International stock return predictability under model uncertainty
Schrimpf, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines return predictability when the investor is uncertain about the right state variables. A novel feature of the model averaging approach used in this paper is to account for finite-sample bias of the coefficients in the predictive regressions. Drawing on an extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728591
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A lead larket approach towards the emergence and diffusion of coal-fired power plant technology
Rennings, Klaus (contributor); Smidt, Wilko (contributor) - 2008
innovative technology within this trajectory. As for the diffusion of SC, the paper concentrates on Germany, USA, China and Japan …. The analysis shows that the typical lead market pattern applies only to a limited extent. In the 1960s and 1970s, the USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003745105
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Modeling asset returns : a comparison of theoretical and empirical models
Lüders, Erik (contributor); Schröder, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - Rev. version
large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003670896
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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
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