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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7808 Luc Behaghel
Adrien Lorenceau
Simon Quantin
Replacing Churches and Mason Lodges? Tax Exemptions and Rural Development
This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 125, 1–15)
J23, J32, H32
7806 Giuseppe Bertola
Winfried Koeniger
Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy
We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a ...
(revised version published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2015, 46 (4), 777-790)
E21, D81, D82
7804 Nico Pestel
Eric Sommer
Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Shifting taxes from labor income to consumption is regularly suggested as a measure to induce work incentives. We investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the ...
(revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563)
H21, H23, C63, D31
7803 Tim Barmby
John G. Sessions
Alexandros Zangelidis
Looking After Number Two? Competition, Cooperation and Workplace Interaction
We build a model of worker interdependence in which two workers can either compete or cooperate and compare performance under either scenario to that of a single worker working in isolation. We show ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 131 (Part A), 166-182)
J33, J41, J54
7800 Hein Bogaard
Jan Svejnar
Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 100 - 115)
F23, G21, M52
7799 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Vincenzo Scoppa
Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment
We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 48, 117-128)
J16, J24, J70, C93
7798 Belton M. Fleisher
William H. McGuire
Adam Nicholas Smith
Mi Zhou
Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology ...
(published as 'Knowledge capital, innovation, and growth in China' in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2015, 39, 31-42.)
O31, O33, O34, O43, P33
7797 Riccardo Crescenzi
Max Nathan
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (1), 177–194)
O31, O33, R11, R23
7796 Seçil Hülya Danakol
Saul Estrin
Paul Reynolds
Utz Weitzel
Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?
This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro-panel of more than two thousand individuals ...
(published as 'Foreign direct investment via M&A and domestic entrepreneurship: blessing or curse?' in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 48 (3), 599 - 612)
F23, M13, L26
7795 Nora Stel
Wim Naudé
Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon
The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial ...
(published as 'Public–Private Entanglement’: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52 (2), 254–268)
L26, M48, O17, O53
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