Often, professors overlook or even ignore the negative feedback in their Student Evaluations of Teachings (SETs) for a multitude of reasons. Most notably, the negative feedback appears unimportant if the instructor overall is well-liked or teaches well. However, the data found in negative...

This paper explores the context of a coughing customer for frontline workers during their job duties within the timeframe of the Covid-19 pandemic. With a sample of 38 participants, we utilized semi-structured interviews to enhance understanding of cognitive, emotional, and vocational challenges...

This paper explores the context of a coughing customer for frontline workers during their job duties within the timeframe of the Covid-19 pandemic. With a sample of 38 participants, we utilized semi-structured interviews to enhance understanding of cognitive, emotional, and vocational challenges...

Talent allocation models assume that entrepreneurial talent is selfish and thus allocates into unproductive or even destructive activities if these offer the highest private returns. This paper experimentally analyzes other-regarding preferences of entrepreneurial talent. We find that making a...

We develop a model in which stronger protection of intellectual property rights has an inverted U-shaped effect on innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial exploration that would otherwise accrue to the...

Skill-biased technical change has occupied empirical economists for much of the 90s. However, the empirical literature has not progressed much beyond observing a positive correlation between technology indicators and demand shifts. Two hypotheses on the root causes of skill biases in technical...