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The Green Industrial Revolution – Investment Pathways to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector in Europe
Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023
The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020 - Version of August, 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
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Robots and Firms
Koch, Michael - 2019
We study the implications of robot adoption at the level of individual firms using a rich panel data-set of Spanish manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990-2016). We focus on three central questions: (1) Which firms adopt robots? (2) What are the labor market effects of robot adoption at...
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
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 owners, we quantify how...
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Who Does the Talking Here? The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Interactions
Hardt, David; Mayer, Lea; Rincke, Johannes - 2023
We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign … individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team … task. By design, effects on team performance can only work through communication. We find that all-male teams communicate …
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Bribing in Team Contests
Dogan, Serhat - 2020
We study bribing in a sequential team contest with multiple pairwise battles. We allow for asymmetries in winning … prizes and marginal costs of effort; and we characterize the conditions under which (i) a player in a team is offered a bribe … by the owner of the other team and (ii) she accepts the bribe. We show that these conditions depend on the ratios of …
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The Perks of Being in the Smaller Team : Incentives in Overlapping Contests
March, Christoph - 2020
We investigate overlapping contests in multi-divisional organizations in which an individual's effort simultaneously determines the outcome of several contests on different hierarchical levels. We show that individuals in smaller units are advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for...
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Moral Hazard in Electoral Teams
Cox, Gary W. - 2020
How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections? If each candidate's primary goal is winning a seat, then those in safe and hopeless list positions have weak incentives to campaign. We present a model in which (i) candidates care about both legislative seats and the...
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Do Male Managers Increase Risk-Taking of Female Teams? Evidence from the NCAA
Böheim, René - 2019
We analyze the effect of the coach’s gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach’s gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...
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Competition and the Role of Group Identity
Cornaglia, Francesca - 2019
more actively in the team-building task …
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