Similar Search Results

Business Dynamics and Informal Contracts: Experimental Evidence from the Cowpea Street Food Sector in West Africa

Otoo, Miriam; Fulton, Joan R.; Wu, Steven Y.; Ibro, Germaine - 2010

contract, standard price contract and discretionary bonus contract (most incomplete). Gift contracts and standard price …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446130

Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives

Bowles, Samuel; Hwang, Sung-Ha - 2008

Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467887

Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives

Bowles, Samuel; Hwang, Sung-Ha - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468014

Labor Market Institutions and Restructuring: Evidence from Regulated and Unregulated Labor Markets in Brazil

Hoek, Jasper - 2002

This paper compares patterns of hiring and separations in regulated and unregulated labor markets over the last two decades in Brazil, with an eye toward gauging the effects of employment protection on employment adjustment over the business cycle. Since the difference between the sectors is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476831

The Implications of Sequential Investment in the Property Rights Theory of the Firm

Mai, Maxim - 2008

contract on (at least some) of their investment costs.As well as being empirically relevant, sequencing has several important … investment. Third, as noted, sequencing of investment provides the possibility to (partially) contract on ex-post investment and …-ante investors –who can not contract on their investments at all – are more likely to require the protection of property rights …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480075

TO LOHN OR NOT TO LOHN--A PUZZLE IN SUBCONTRACTING ARRANGEMENTS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

Andrei, Simona Cristina - 2009

The dramatic increase in outsourcing has led to a burgeoning theoretical literature that tries to explain the associated organization of production. So far the literature has focused solely on analyzing the determinants of decisions by outsourcing firms, but has ignored the firms to which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450962

Essays on subcontracting, competitive bidding, and dynamic housing demand.

Miller, Daniel Patrick - 2009

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. December 2009. Major: Economics. Advisor: Patrick L. Bajari. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 98 pages, appendices A-B.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009462783

Use-Oriented Business Models and Flexibility in Industrial Product-Service Systems

Richter, A.; Sadek, T.; Steven, M.; Welp, E. G. - 2009

Today’s corporate environments are characterized by growing dynamics and uncertainties. Here, flexibilitygains importance as a critical success factor. This is especially true for long-term customer-supplierrelationships. As a solution to the mentioned uncertainties connected with such a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463170

Contracts and Technology Adoption

Acemoglu, Daron; Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2007

Economics

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432015

Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence

Zilibotti, Fabrizio; Griffith, Rachel; Aghion, Philippe; … - 2010

Economics

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432017