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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge the manager has acquired and successfully diffused...

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Peer effects in product adoption

Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Kuchler, Theresa; … - 2019

competing brands-in particular those running on a different operating system. We discuss the implications of these findings for …

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Bank specialization and corporate innovation

Degryse, Hans; De Jonghe, Olivier; Gambacorta, Leonardo; … - 2024

Theory offers conflicting predictions on whether and how lenders' sectoral specialization would affect firms … patent data and micro-level innovation survey data, we find that lenders' sectoral specialization improves innovation for … variation in bank specialization. We further show that these heterogeneous effects arise through financial contracting. Overall …

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Social networks and peer effects at work

Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2013

This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...

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Peer effects in collaborative content generation : the evidence from German Wikipedia

Slivko, Olga - 2014

On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...

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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...

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Fairness and frictions : the impact of unequal raises on quit behavior

Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2015

We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...

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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...

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Informal versus formal search : which yields a better pay?

Tumen, Semih - 2015 - Forthcoming in: International Journal of Economic Theory

Estimates on the effect of job contact method - i.e., informal versus formal search - on wage offers vary considerably across studies, with some of them finding a positive correlation between getting help from informal connections and obtaining high-paying jobs, while others finding a negative...

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Gender and peer effects in social networks

Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2017

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender heterogeneity that we test by means of a...

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