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Braun, Thorsten V.; Krispin, Sebastian; Lehmann, Erik - 2009

firm's assets in the spirit of the Grossman-Hart-Moore incomplete contracts theory of the firm. This approach highlights …

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Entrepreneurial human capital, complementary assets, and takeover probability

Braun, Thorsten V.; Krispin, Sebastian; Lehmann, Erik - 2010

Although acquisitions of high tech entrepreneurial firms are of great popularity, the limited empirical evidence shows that these acquisitions often lead to dismal results in that a large number of acquired inventors leave the company after the acquisition and those that remain exhibit poor...

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Does Corruption Affect the Private Provision of Public Goods?

Cagala, Tobias - 2018

We present controlled experimental evidence on how corruption affects the private provision of public goods. Subjects … in our experiment donate to non-profit associations. The associations provide local public goods that benefit all … cooperation and private contributions to public goods …

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Estimating Discount Factors for Public and Private Goods and Testing Competing Discounting Hypotheses

Meyer, Andrew - 2012

The observation of declining discount rates in experimental settings has led many to promote hyperbolic discounting over standard exponential discounting as the preferred descriptive model of intertemporal choice. I develop a new framework, consistent with the random utility model, which...

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The effect of effectiveness : donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment

Karlan, Dean; Wood, Daniel - 2014

We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...

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