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The role of verifiability and privacy in the strategic provision of performance feedback: Theory and experimental evidence

Ertaç, Seda; Koçkesen, Levent; Özdemir, Duygu - 2015

We theoretically and experimentally analyze the role of verifiability and privacy in strategic performance feedback …-serving biases and engage in non-Bayesian social comparisons in their interpretation of performance feedback. …

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Strategic feedback in teams: Theory and experimental evidence

Ertaç, Seda; Gümren, Mert; Koçkesen, Levent - 2017

different performance technologies. We consider a setting where the principal can provide truthful information on agents …' performances or strategically withhold feedback. We find that if team performance is determined by the best performer (the "best …, in which case no feedback is best. If, on the other hand, team performance is determined by the worst performer (the …

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Construction of a global score from multi-item questionnaires in epidemiological studies

Hadžibajramovic, Emina; Svensson, Elisabeth; Ahlborg, … - 2013

Perceived health, mood, job demands and social support are common outcome variables in epidemiological studies of the psychosocial work environment, as measured by multidimensional multiitem questionnaires. The Stress-Energy Questionnaire (SEQ) is one such questionnaire and was developed to...

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Mineral Policy Issues in theContext of Export and Domestic Use of Iron Ore in India

Firoz, A. S. - 2008

This study examines the utilization of iron ore in India. It takes into account thesignificant reserves of iron ore in India and allays fears that the country's steel industrywill run out of iron ore resources if exports continue at the current level. On the contrary,it says that exports are...

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Buy coal, cap gas! Markets for fossil fuel deposits when fuel emission intensities differ

Vogt, Angelika; Hagen, Achim; Eisenack, Klaus - 2020

Climate policies can target either the demand or the supply of fossil fuels. While demandside policies have been analyzed in the literature and applied in policy-making, supply-side policies, e.g. deposit policies, are a promising option and a recent research focus. In this paper we study...

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Exogenous oil supply shocks in OPEC and non-OPEC countries

Güntner, Jochen; Henßler, Johannes - 2020

This note expands Kilian's (2008) original time series of exogenous oil supply shocks along two dimensions. First, we extend the sample period and include production shortfalls in OPEC member states during 2004:10-2018:12. Second, we also consider production shortfalls in non-OPEC countries. Our...

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OPEC's Market Power: An Empirical Dominant Firm Model for the Oil Market

Golombek, Rolf; Irarrazabal, Alfonso; Ma, Lin - 2014

In this paper we estimate a dominant firm-competitive fringe model for the crude oil market using quarterly data on oil prices for the 1986-2009 period. All the estimated structural parameters have the expected sign and are significant at standard test levels. We find that OPEC exercised its...

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Supply Flexibility in the Shale Patch: Evidence from North Dakota

Bjørnland, Hilde C.; Nordvik, Frode Martin; Rohrer, … - 2017

We question whether supply ﬂexibility in oil production depends on the type of extraction technology. In particular, we ask if shale oil producers respond to price incentives when producing oil or completing new wells. Constructing a novel well-level monthly production data set covering more...

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The value of top-down communication for organizational performance

Brandes, Leif; Darai, Donja - 2014

We design a laboratory experiment to identify causal performance effects of top-down communication between managers and …-down communication is a profitable way for managers to increase employee performance in the presence of uncertainty. Specifically, we … their subordinates. Our focus lies on communication that resolves uncertainty about the work environment but does not …

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An empirical analysis of risk, incentives and the delegation of worker authority

Devaro, Jed; Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2011

We address four empirical questions in this paper. Is there empirical support for: 1) the risk-incentives tradeoff predicted by agency theory? 2) a positive relationship between authority and incentives? 3) a positive relationship between risk and authority? 4) the main testable implication of...

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