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Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese...
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human cooperation. Three implications for leadership are derived, which are summarized under the notion CC strategy. Firstly …
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Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We … contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the relationship between religion and cooperation … further document heterogeneous patterns of negative reciprocity and punishment - two key elements for cooperation - across …
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This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...
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A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective …
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performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in … FNAs on firm performance, which resists a large set of robustness tests. However, such a positive effect on firms does not …
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differ between the analysed high-tech industries. Cooperation between start-up firms can be interpreted as a kind of mutual …
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reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age … players do. The effect of temperature on performance is smaller when there is more at stake. Our findings also suggest that …
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performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
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startup characteristics to forecast the performance of newly started enterprises over a five years' time horizon. The … performance outcomes we consider are involuntary exit, above-average employment growth, a return on assets of above 20 percent … predict startup performance with either high or very high accuracy with the exception of high returns on assets where …
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