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This paper presents the basics of the Transaction cost theory (TCT) and shows it's contribution to the Theory of the firm by the view of the new institutional economics. In the first part, author presents resources and presumptions of the TCT mainly by O. E. Williamson. The theory is based on...
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We study the issue of integrating real and financial decisions in a monopoly firm with risk-averse decision-makers. To that end, we combine the decisions of the firm and of the shareholders in a very simple but robust model, with uncertainty in the real market and CARA preferences. We show the...
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information about worker ability as the incumbent firm. I develop a model of asymmetric learning that nests the symmetric learning … find strong support for asymmetric information. I first exploit the fact that groups of workers differ in their variances … interest in my model representing the degree to which information is asymmetric. My estimates imply that in one period, outside …
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take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the …
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productive information usage, intelligence growth, storing intellectual capital, strategic planning, flexible acquisition …
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We study optimal employment contracts for present-biased employees who can conduct on-the-job search. Presuming that firms cannot offer long-term contracts, we find that individuals who are naive about their present bias will actually be better off than sophisticated or time-consistent...
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We study optimal subsidies for renewable energy (RE) generation to internalize external benefits from intertemporal learning-by-doing spillovers, taking into account increasing marginal costs at the industry level due to limited availability of sites suitable for RE. We find that the optimal RE...
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In the context of firm decision-making, several motives for acquiring and conveying information exist. Information … acquire and communicate information. We employ a cheap-talk model with information acquisition and communication by a firm … incentive to overstate this value to persuade or impress external parties. We show that information acquisition and …
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A physician performs two tasks: making diagnoses and determining treatments. To reduce medical error, residents are supposed to consult their supervisors when they face uncommon circumstances. However, recent research shows that residents are reluctant to do so. This paper presents a model that...
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This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of successful research projects. We provide clear evidence that externally sourced projects and projects involving biotechnologies perform better than internal projects and chemical...
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