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Impact of macro-economic environment on diversification-performance relationship: A cross country study of India and Japan

Purkayastha, Saptarshi - 2013

Integrating the impact of resources and institutional factors, this study compares and contrasts the dynamic relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India and Japan have been chosen as they represent different...

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Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Amodio, Francesco - 2019

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...

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Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess

Künn, Steffen - 2020

During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...

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Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning

Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel - 2021

This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show how, in the presence of imperfect information over the shape of the production function, worker's effort choice changes over time as information is disclosed and processed. We...

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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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The export-diversifying impact of and U.S. foreign direct investments in indian manufacturing sector

Banga, Rashmi - 2003

The paper highlights the export-diversifying impact of FDI in a developing country. FDI from a particular source may lead to export diversification of developing countries if it positively affects the export-intensity of the non-traditional export sector. Indirectly, FDI may encourage export...

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Job-hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the micro-foundations of a high technology cluster

Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005

California law that make non-compete agreements unenforceable. Consistent with our model of innovation, mobility rates outside of …

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Examining US productivity: Knowledge flows from industry and country sources

Koch, William - 2008

a measure of technology that isolates sources of innovation and their contributions to domestic TFP. Within …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

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A tax plan for endogenous innovation

Croce, M. M.; Karantounias, A. G.; Raymond, Stephen; … - 2017

government provide incentives for innovation in a fiscally sustainable way? We address this question by examining the Ramsey … problem of finding optimal tax and subsidy schemes in a model in which growth is endogenously sustained by risky innovation …. We characterize the shadow value of growth and entry in the innovation sector. We find that a profit tax is required to …

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Educational inequality

Azuma, Yoshiaki; Grossman, Herschel I. - 2001

This paper develops a theoretical model of the inequality in wages and salaries associated with differences in years of schooling (educational inequality, for short). Our model assumes that in the long run individual decisions to become more educated equalize the lifetime earnings of more...

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