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This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
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We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...
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We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor are founded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-off between law enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfers are based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables may appear positive....
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general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
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