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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...

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Lab Labor : What can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

Charness, Gary - 2010

understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …

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Losers and Losers : Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

Friedson, Andrew - 2011

Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...

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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Pope, Devin G. - 2014

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game : Evidence from Long Run Play

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2015

in wage disputes that were settled by final-offer arbitration in New Jersey. The paper also reports briefly on similar … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes …

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Bidding for Brains : Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers

McAusland, Carol - 2010

We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K. - 2012

We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …

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The Political U : New Evidence on Democracy and Income

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...

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