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Killer Incentives : Status Competition and Pilot Performance during World War II
Ager, Philipp - 2016
A growing theoretical and empirical literature shows that public recognition can lead employees to exert greater effort. However, status competition is also associated with excessive expenditure on status goods, greater likelihood of bankruptcy, and more risk taking by money managers. This paper...
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How is COVID Changing the Geography of Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Startup Cartography Project
Fazio, Catherine E.; Guzman, Jorge; Liu, Yupeng; Stern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Leveraging data from eight U.S. states from the Startup Cartography Project, this paper provides new insight into the changing nature and geography of entrepreneurship in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Consistent with other data sources, following an initial decline, the overall level of...
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Entrepreneurship During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from the Business Formation Statistics
Haltiwanger, John C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Applications for new businesses from the U.S. Census Bureau's monthly and weekly Business Formation Statistics (BFS) fell substantially in the early stages of the pandemic but then surged in the second half of 2020. This surge has continued through May 2021. The pace of applications since...
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Defining Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2019
United States and Germany we find that 80-90 percent of entrepreneurs are opportunity entrepreneurs. Applying our proposed …
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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2010
Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non …
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Living Up to Expectations : Central Bank Credibility, the Effectiveness of Forward Guidance, and Inflation Dynamics Post-Global Financial Crisis
Cole, Stephen J.; Martínez-García, Enrique; Sims, Eric R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
and affects the overall effectiveness of forward guidance. We find that the central banks of the U.S., the U.K., Germany …
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The Household Equipment Revolution
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A brief historical overview of the household equipment revolution and the women who transformed the home in Germany and …
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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany
Bell, Linda A. - 2000
This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470681
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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Derivatives Usage in Risk Management by US and German Non-Financial Firms : A Comparative Survey
Bodnar, Gordon M. - 1998
be driven by the greater importance of financial accounting statements in Germany than the US and stricter German …
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