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Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments
Competition Behavior Rank and Position Performance Cognition and Thinking
2015/4/27
Economic analysis of rank-order tournaments has shown that intensified competition leads to declining performance. Empirical research demonstrates that individuals in tournament-type contests perform ...
Diasporas and Outsourcing:Evidence from oDesk and India
Diaspora Ethnicity Outsourcing ODesk South Asia Networks Job Cuts and Outsourcing
2015/4/27
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the...
The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Evidence from Four Countries
Sustainability Reporting Mandatory Reporting Corporate Sustainability Corporate Social Responsibility
2015/4/24
We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on corporate disclosure practices. Specifically, we examine regulations mandating the disclosure of environmental, social, and governance in...
The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting:Evidence from Four Countries
Sustainability Reporting Mandatory Reporting Corporate Sustainability Corporate Social Responsibility
2015/4/24
We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on corporate disclosure practices. Specifically, we examine regulations mandating the disclosure of environmental, social, and governance in...
'Fit': Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting, Incentives and Creative Worker Performance
Competency and Skills Collaborative Innovation and Invention Independent Innovation and Invention
2015/4/24
We present the results of a 10-day field experiment in which over 500 elite software developers prepared solutions to the same computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two gro...
'Last-place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications
Wages Surveys Wealth and Poverty Behavior Income Characteristics Research Rank and Position Attitudes Personal Characteristics Economicsu
2015/4/24
Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those sl...
What Do Development Banks Do?Evidence from Brazil,2002-2009
Cost of Capital Credit Equity Banks and Banking Financing and Loans Investment
2015/4/24
While some authors view development banks as an important tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap ...
When Do Analysts Add Value?Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs
Earnings Management Mergers and Acquisitions Business Subsidiaries Restructuring
2015/4/23
We investigate the information content and forecast accuracy of 1,793 analyst reports written around 62 spinoffs—a setting in which analysts' ability to inform investors is potentially very high. We f...
Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence
Business Cycles Borrowing and Debt Credit Banks and Banking Bonds Financial Markets Financing and Loans
2015/4/23
Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time-series. While...
Prosocial Spending and Well-Being:Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
Spending Giving and Philanthropy Happiness Motivation and Incentives Welfare or Wellbeing
2015/4/23
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial ...
Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence
Ethics Personal Development and Career Behavior Competitive Strategy Competitive Advantage
2015/4/23
We examine how unfavorable social comparisons differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem...
Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
Dismissal Costs,Employmet Fluctuations Entry and Exit
2015/4/21
Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States.
Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment:Theory and Evidence
Direct Investment Intellectual Property Rights Foreign
2015/4/21
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a ...
How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
International Finance Energy Sources Energy Industry Asia
2015/4/21
We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous varia...
Testing Limits to Policy Reversal:Evidence from Indian Privatizations
Political Elections Privatization State Ownership India
2015/4/21
We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP was unexpectedly defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of governmen...