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"Good work" is interpreted from an employer's and a worker's viewpoint. An economic experiment on the existence of intrinsic work motivation in a labor market setting is conducted. A theoretical model analyzes worker selection under exogenous unobservable intrinsic motivation and endogenous...
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This paper analyzes the optimal choice of pricing schedules andtechnological deterrence levels in a market with digital piracy wheresellers can influence the degree of piracy by implementing digitalrights management (DRM) systems. It is shown that a monopolist’soptimal pricing schedule can be...
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...
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We develop and analyze a model of pricing for digital products withdiscontinuous supply functions. This characterizes a number ofinformation technology-based products and services for which variableincreases in demand are fulfilled by the addition of 'blocks' ofcomputing or network...
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Screening, das Signaling, der Aufbau von Reputation sowie die Harmonisierung der Interessen der Marktteilnehmer.Der zweite … screening, the signaling, establishing a good reputation as well as the harmonization of the interests of the participants of …
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which this condition does not hold, this paper sets out a simple screening mechanism that induces victims to reveal their …
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This is a study of market organization in very different settings.In the first chapter, I study how the choices by students to “rush” fraternities, and those of fraternities of whom to admit, interact with the signals that firms receive about student productivities to determine labor market...
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It is well-known that bias such as lead-time and length distort studies of screening efficacy whether survival or … studies where the proportion screened and screening rates vary by risk-factor strata. This difference in screening behaviors …-factor studies when screening is efficacious; therefore, it can be addressed by conventional analyses such as stratification or …
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that stronger screening may lead to inefficiency since greater selectivity worsens the productivity of the unemployment … moments of the distribution of wages and unemployment durations in CPS data. I also show that an increase of screening costs …
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lending conditions— is associated with more bank-level failures in crises, consistent with lower screening. …
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