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This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … globalization on the skill premium and fully-endogenous growth. Higher quality products are endogenously discovered through … stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D to discover new products while …
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This paper proposes a simple framework to model contextual influences on procedural decision making. In terms of …
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feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts … internationalization of production, falling trade costs boost the internationalization of NGO campaigns. We use our data to estimate the …
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It is tricky to design local regulations on global externalities, especially so if firms are mobile. We show that when costs and outside options are firms’ private information, the threat of firm relocation leads to local regulations that are stricter, not looser. This result is general and...
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This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
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Firm-to-firm relationships in global value chains create opportunities for North-South technology diffusion. This paper … studies technology transfer in value chains when contracts are incomplete and input production technologies are imperfectly … imitation of its supplier’s technology. In inclusive value chains, where imitation is beneficial, the headquarters firm promotes …
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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape group decision-making outcomes. Groups …
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Human decision-making differs due to variation in both incentives and available information. This generates substantial … challenges for the evaluation of whether and how machine learning predictions can improve decision outcomes. We propose a … decision maker payoff functions and predictive skill. We apply our framework to the major health policy problem of improving …
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This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relation between decision speed and decision quality for a real …-by-move data provide exceptionally detailed and precise information about decision times and decision quality, based on a … with the predictions of procedural decision models like drift-diffusion-models in which decision makers sequentially …
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Two non-transitive theories to model decision making under risk are regret theory (Loomes and Sugden, 1982, 1987) and … salience theory (Bordalo, Gennaioli, and Shleifer, 2012). While the psychological underpinning of these two approaches is … of choice behavior. We investigate the overlap between these theories and show that original regret theory (Loomes and …
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