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A Gift-Exchange With Probabilistic Payoffs

Luzuriaga, Miguel; Kunze, Oliver - In: International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics … 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18

This article describes how there exists ample experimental evidence demonstrating a positive wage-effort relationship in which the results from the employee's effort lead to deterministic firm payoffs. The authors thus investigate a reframed version of the gift-exchange game in which the firms'...

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Risk and Transactions Cost in Contracting: Results from a Choice-Based Experiment

Hudson, Darren; Lusk, Jayson - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 2 (2004) 1

Contracting is a contentious issue in agriculture. Competing theories assert that risk or transactions cost drive contracting decisions, with some argument that autonomy also plays a role. We examine preferences for different contract attributes using a choice-based conjoint experiment. Results...

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On the Implications of Essential Heterogeneity for Estimating Causal Impacts Using Social Experiments

Ravallion, Martin - In: Journal of Econometric Methods 4 (2015) 1, pp. 145-151

Abstract The standard model of essential heterogeneity, whereby program take up depends on unobserved costs and benefits of take up, is generalized to allow the source of latent heterogeneity to influence counterfactual outcomes. The standard instrumental variables (IV) estimator is shown to...

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It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - In: Review of Network Economics 11 (2012) 3

(strict) Nash networks in the 1-way flow model but a negative impact in the 2-way flow model. In our discussion on possible …

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Bias and Size Effects of Price-Comparison Platforms: Theory and Experimental Evidence

García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzís, Nikolaos; … - In: Review of Network Economics 15 (2017) 1, pp. 1-34

Abstract We analyze the impact on consumer prices of some information characteristics of price-comparison search platforms. An equilibrium model where vendors compete in prices and consumers do not observe prices, but can obtain price information through a search platform, is developed. The...

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Are Experienced Managers Experts at Overcoming Coordination Failure?

Cooper, David J - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 6 (2006) 2

This paper studies experiments set in a corporate environment where a manager attempts to overcome a history of …

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Network Politics and the Arab Spring

Bishop, Jonathan; Solo, Ashu M. G. - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 3 (2016) 1, pp. 23-27

Network politics is examined in the context of the Arab Spring. Network politics refers to politics and networks. These … networks include the Internet, private networks, cellular networks, telephone networks, radio networks, television networks …, etc. Network politics includes the applications of networks to enable one or more individuals or organizations to engage …

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The Smart City and its Citizens: Governance and Citizen Participation in Amsterdam Smart City

Capra, Carlo Francesco - In: International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 5 (2016) 1, pp. 20-38

Smart cities are associated almost exclusively with modern technology and infrastructure. However, smart cities have the possibility to enhance the involvement and contribution of citizens to urban development. This work explores the role of governance as one of the factors influencing the...

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Management Approach of Risk Analysis in Information Security

Petrescu, Anca Gabriela - In: International Journal of Innovation in the Digital … 9 (2018) 3, pp. 13-26

This article describes how the ease of access to information and communication technologies is practically a prerequisite for the functioning of modern society. Taking the competitive market into consideration, the protection of the information infrastructure for a company, could mean that...

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Complex Network Perspective on Collaboration in the ICT Standardization

Ali-Vehmas, Timo - In: International Journal of Standardization Research (IJSR) 14 (2016) 2, pp. 33-64

Standardization is a crucial enabler of global business of Information and Communications Technologies. Convergence of the underlying networking paradigms of licensed Mobile Communication and license exempted Internet has made progress but full integration is still far from being complete. For...

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