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  • 2008
  • Chapter

The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
This paper summarizes the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement savings outcomes. After outlining the salient features of the various sources of retirement income in the U.S., the paper presents the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Financial Condition; Retirement; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Outcome or Result; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Macroeconomics; United States
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  • 28 May 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
  • 1998
  • Working Paper

Some Evidence on the Optimal Welfare State Based on Subjective Data

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
It is often difficult to evaluate all the costs and benefits of the welfare state. This paper suggests an alternative approach based on surveys of citizen satisfaction with welfare programs. In the first part of the paper we estimate the level of unemployment benefits... View Details
Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Employment; Surveys; Programs; Government and Politics; Age; Income; Residency; Welfare; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost vs Benefits; Satisfaction; United Kingdom
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-owned Local Businesses

By: Abhay Aneja, Michael Luca and Oren Reshef
Is there latent demand to support Black-owned businesses? To explore, we analyze a new feature that made it easier to identify Black-owned restaurants on a large online platform. We find that labeling restaurants as “Black-owned” increased customer engagement and... View Details
Keywords: Black-owned Businesses; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Ownership; Knowledge Dissemination; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • March 2007
  • Article

Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

By: Julie Wulf
I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Monitoring Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Chile

By: Maria Paula Gerardino, Stephan Litschig and Dina D. Pomeranz
The government is the biggest buyer in the economy of most countries. At the same time, the public procurement process if often thought to be fraught with corruption and malpractice. However, there is little evidence regarding the impact of audits aimed at reducing... View Details
Keywords: Procurement; Chile; Corruption; Public Finance; Public Procurement; Public Sector; Public Administration Industry; Chile
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  • 11 Aug 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements

Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell
  • 19 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

    Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

    This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and lending decisions. We first show that, while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more... View Details

    • 01 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Negative Shocks and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Device Recalls

    Keywords: by George P. Ball, Jeffrey T. Macher, and Ariel Dora Stern; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • 25 May 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace

    Keywords: by Grace Gu and Feng Zhu; Service
    • 2000
    • Chapter

    Value Creation and Process Management: Evidence from Retail Banking

    By: Frances X. Frei and Patrick T. Harker
    Keywords: Value Creation; Business Processes; Business or Company Management; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Labor Reactions to Credit Deterioration: Evidence from LinkedIn Activity

    We provide the first analysis of workers’ on-the-job networking activity following their firm’s credit deterioration. Using high-frequency networking on LinkedIn, we show that workers initiate more connections immediately following adverse credit shocks. We propose a... View Details
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    • March 2024
    • Article

    Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya

    By: Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel
    We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over 20 years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that... View Details
    Keywords: Religion; Human Capital; Developing Countries and Economies; Welfare; Kenya
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Networking Frictions: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Networking Events in Lomé

    By: Stefan Dimitiadis and Rembrand Koning
    Spatial proximity between firms plays a crucial role in entrepreneurship by creating knowledge spillovers, enabling resource sharing, and sparking productivity gains. Building on these insights, research has explored whether institutions and organizations can engineer... View Details
    Keywords: Local Range; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Productivity; Togo
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    Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

    By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano and Pian Shu
    Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Production; Trade; Competition; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Skilled Immigration and Firm-Level Innovation: Evidence from H-1B Lottery

    By: Andy Wu
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms

    By: Joan Farre-Mensa
    Private firms’ ability to communicate confidentially with selected investors implies that valuation disagreements between firms and investors are larger at public firms than at private ones. Consistent with the notion that misvaluation concerns lead public firms to... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Equity; Private Companies; Corporate Cash; Precautionary Motives; Share Issuance; IPOs; Selective Disclosure; Private Ownership; Cash; Market Timing; Corporate Finance; Public Ownership; Corporate Disclosure; United States
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Networks as Covers: Evidence from an On-Line Social Network

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
    This paper proposes that networks give actors a cover by giving them the excuse of sociability to engage in normatively prohibited market behaviors. I apply this hypothesis to actors in long-term exclusive relationships who are surreptitiously seeking new relationships... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Behavior; Ethics; Relationships; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • 2009
    • Other Unpublished Work

    When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs

    By: Emilie Feldman, Stuart Gilson and Belen Villalonga
    Keywords: Value Creation; Business Conglomerates
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