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Harbaugh, Rick; To, Dr. Theodore - EconWPA - 2005

Is it always wise to disclose good news? When both the sender and the receiver have private information about the sender's quality, we find that the worst sender type with good news has the most incentive to disclose it, so reporting good news can paradoxically make the sender look bad. If the...

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Bilateral Uncertainty in a Model of Job-Market Screening with Intermediaries

Schweinzer, Paul - EconWPA - 2001

We look at a job-market model of bilateral uncertainty. Workers are uncertain about what job descriptions advertised by firms really mean and firms are uncertain about the qualifications of workers before they are interviewed. Both types of uncertainty can be resolved but both processes are...

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" Communication in Dynastic Repeated Games: `Whitewashes' and `Coverups' "

Anderlini, Luca; Lagunoff, Roger - EconWPA - 2001

We ask whether communication can directly substitute for memory in dynastic repeated games in which short lived … by means of communication. When communication is costless and messages are sent simultaneously, communication mechanisms … or protocols exist that sustain the same set of equilibrium payoffs as in the standard repeated game. When communication …

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Organizations and Overlapping Generations Games: Memory, Communication, and Altruism

Lagunoff, Roger; Matsui, Akihiko - EconWPA - 2001

This paper studies the role of memory and communication in games between ongoing organizations. In each organization … the past can be communicated by one generation to the next through ``cheap talk" communication. With costly communication …

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Why Lying Pays: Truth Bias in the Communication with Conflicting Interests

Kawagoe, Toshiji; Takizawa, Hirokazu - EconWPA - 2005

's messages. This confirms ``truth bias'' reported in communication theory in a one-shot, anonymous environment without nonverbal … under certain conditions. We claim that the theory for the evolution of language should address why truthful communication …

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Does Temporary Agency Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function of temporary agency work for the unemployed, i.e. its short-run and long-run effects on their future employment prospects. Our results show that...

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Incentives and spillovers in R&D activities: an agency-theoretic analysis of industry-university relations

Lacetera, Nicola - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, I study industry-university relations in a principal- agent framework. Following the existing literature, these relations are interpreted in two ways: (1) as occurring through spillovers of knowledge among different groups of researchers, working for different institutional...

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Fixed wage or share: Contingent contract renewal and skipper motivation

Matthiasson, Thorolfur - EconWPA - 1997

Fishermen around the world are usually remunerated by shares. Iceland is no exception in that respect. The fixed wage systems,that have been tried out, have been short- lived and their utilization limited. The fundamental question asked in this paper is: Why do almost all vessel owners use the...

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Ingresos y Microempresarias en Chile

Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005

Utilizando los datos de la encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica CASEN 2000, este trabajo evalúa el impacto en la generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no paramétricas. Los resultados son robustos...

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Reciprocal fairness and gift exchange practices in the labor

Mahuteau, Stephane - EconWPA - 2002

stable gift exchange practices in the labor contract, giving rise to non- compensating wage differentials among industries … mutual cooperation more likely. We propose a direct evaluation of the determinants of gift exchange practices between French …

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