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Crisi climatica e crisi della cultura. Leggendo Amitav Ghosh, La Grande Cecità
Ri-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, 2019 As nowadays climate change is becoming a central topic of discussion, not only in the university with many publications, researches, conferences, but also in the daily and private life of each of us — because we directly experience that something is ...
Antonella Valentini
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Moral Hazard in Sequential Teams [PDF]
This paper considers a team in which production takes place sequentially and in which agents observe the actions taken by previous agents. We show that for such teams sharing rules exist which are balanced and induce efficient production as the unique ...
Roland Strausz
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann +2 more
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Optimally Empty Promises and Endogenous Supervision [PDF]
We study optimal contracting in team settings, featuring stylized aspects of production environments with complex tasks. Agents have many opportunities to shirk, task-level monitoring is needed to provide useful incentives, and because it is difficult to
David A. Miller, Kareen Rozen
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European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Corporate purpose has rapidly gained prominence in management literature and is considered a highly influential concept in business, promising to enable businesses' transformative power. While most existing studies highlight the positive outcomes of incorporating purpose into organizational frameworks, some research highlights negative ...
Nicole Steller, Guido Möllering
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Borrower Empowerment and Savings: A Two-stage Micro-finance Scheme [PDF]
We consider group-lending with joint liability where the provision of loans is conditional on prior savings. In a dynamic model with moral hazard and endogenous group-formation, we examine the effect of such schemes on the allocation of loans between ...
Roy Chowdhury, Prabal
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Sports CEOs and Corporate Innovation
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a hand‐collected data set, we find that firms led by CEOs who were student‐athletes in college exhibit significantly superior innovation outcomes, as measured by patent numbers, citation counts, and the economic value of patents. Evidence from CEO turnover analysis supports a CEO imprinting interpretation.
Jaideep Chowdhury +2 more
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Insuring college failure risk [PDF]
Participants in student loan programs must repay loans in full regardless of whether they complete college. But many students who take out a loan do not earn a degree (the dropout rate among college students is between 33 to 50 percent).
Felicia Ionescu, Satyajit Chatterjee
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Profit Sharing, Teams, and Earnings
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of two team arrangements on the association between profit sharing and workers' earnings. In non‐interconnected teams individuals work on a single team, whereas in interconnected teams some employees work on several teams.
Marco A. Barrenechea‐Méndez +1 more
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Comprehensive testing of a defense systems communications satellite [PDF]
The system level testing of the defense satellite communications system (DSCS) 3 program is reviewed. Concentration is on the results of the systems tests of the DSCS 3 development test model (DTM).
Keer, S. J., Shirk, N. K.
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