We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end weelicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in arural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictatorgames conducted in the...

In this study, we relate the individual locus-of-control personality trait of team members to the team’s information gathering and processing behavior. We adopt a team information-processing approach arguing that a team’s information-processing capacity is a function of its composition with...

This study investigates the effects of social comparisons accompanying a substantial reform of theDutch pension system on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reformimplies that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950, or later face a substantial reductionin...

This paper proposes to investigate the threshold effects of the productivity of infrastructure investment in developing countries within a panel data framework. Various speci.cations of an augmented production function that allow for endogenous thresholds are considered. The overwhelming outcome...

This study reports the results of an investigation into the profitability of audit engagements. The study is motivated by the frequently expressed concern regarding the lack of competitiveness on the audit market, based on trends of increasing concentration of suppliers in this market. The...

This paper extends on the gripping analysis of possible consequences of the anticompetitive behavior of Microsoft Corporation in the market for computer operating systems offered in Hall and Hall (2000). It is concluded that the model of Hall and Hall offers much more reason to be suspicious of...

We consider a model of dynamic price competition to analyze the impact of consumer inertia on the ability of firms to sustain high prices. Three main consequences are identified, all of which contrast with predictions of the standard model of collusion: (i) maintaining high prices does not...

This case study illustrates how standard or traditional costing systems can reveal information that e.g. ABC methods would reveal, if appropriate variances are calculated. Variance analysis on disaggregated and timely information not only allows for timely corrective action, but it can also...

Understanding individual and social decisions and how they are affected by the environment andinstitutional constraints is at the heart of the social sciences. With the exception ofpsychology, traditionally in the social sciences empirical evidence is gathered via happenstancedata. Such data are...

This paper examines the consumer requirements for payment systems on the Internet. According to previous literature, the eight important features of payment systems from a consumer’s point of view are: security, reliability, privacy, acceptability, person-to-person (P2P), flexibility, price,...