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The impact of leadership skills, social pressure and sabotage behavior on individual income and the performance of teams

Deutscher, Christian - 2010

Lohndeterminante aufzunehmen. Dies liegt unter anderem daran, dass in der Theorie für den Einfluss von Persönlichkeit auf Gehalt keine … Auswärtsspielen unverändert bleibt. Dies bestätigt die Theorie des sozialen Drucks, welche eine Leistungsschwächung vor … has earlier been explained by the fact that economic theory simply does not predict which personality traits influence …

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Multivariate Choice and Identification of Social Interactions

Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Liu, Xiaodong; Zenou, Yves - 2012

In this paper, we investigate the impact of peers on own outcomes where all agents embedded in a network choose more than one activity. We develop a simple network model that illustrates these issues. We differentiate between the ‘seemingly unrelated’ simultaneous equations model where...

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Group Lending with Heterogeneous Types

Gan, Li - 2017

This paper proposes and implements a mixture model to account for the unobserved group heterogeneity when modeling repayment behavior in group lending. We discuss the model properties and identification. We estimate the model using a rich dataset from a group lending program in India. The...

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The Effect of In-Group Favoritism on the Collective Behavior of Individuals’ Opinions

Alizadeh, Meysam - 2016

Empirical findings from social psychology show that sometimes people show favoritism toward in-group members in order to reach a global consensus, even against individuals' own preferences (e.g., altruistically or deontically). Here we integrate ideas and findings on in-group favoritism, opinion...

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Group Lending with Heterogeneous Types

Gan, Li - 2013

Group lending has been widely adopted in the past thirty years by many microfinance institutions as a means to mitigate information asymmetries when delivering credit to the poor. This paper proposes an empirical method to address the potential omitted variable problem resulting from unobserved...

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