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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival

Brown, J. David (contributor); … - 2009

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...

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Let's (not) escalate this! : leadership and communication in a group contest

Heine, Florian; Riedl, Arno - 2025

of leadership - leading-by-example and transactional leadership - and investigating the effect of communication between … share of the prize to followers who have invested more. Communication between leaders decreases contest investments when …

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Types of communications technology and civil conflict

Bharati, Tushar; Jetter, Michael; Malik, Muhammad Nauman - 2022

This paper introduces a unifying theoretical framework to understand the relationship between different types of communications technology (CT) and the incidence of civil conflict. In our model, one-way CT allows the government to broadcast messages they use to (mis)inform dissidents about the...

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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study … externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This …. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions. …

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Delegation to a group

Fehrler, Sebastian; Janas, Moritz - 2021

We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information aggregation. On the one hand, the expected benefit...

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Communication and coordination in a two-stage game

Bjedov, Tjaša; Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2015

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …

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Productivity dynamics : the role of competition in a service industry

Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches which compete with one another for union members whose...

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The effects of local market concentration and international competition on firm productivity : evidence from Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis F.; … - 2020

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...

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Mystery shopping as a strategic management practice in multi-site firms

Block, Sidney T.; Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; … - 2022

Anonymous and unannounced site inspections known as "Mystery Shopping" (MS) are common in multi-site service firms, but little is known about the strategic importance of this practice. We conceptualize MS as a monitoring tool firms use to implement the optimal allocation of site resources...

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UN interventions : the role of geography

Duque, Juan Carlos; Jetter, Michael; Sosa, Santiago - 2014

This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...

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