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Do Labor Market Rigidities have Microeconomic Effects? Evidence from Within the Firm
(2007-08)
We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food ...
Unemployment in East and West Europe
(2007-04)
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western ...
Supply Disruptions, Asymmetric Information and a Backup Production Option
(2008-04)
We study a manufacturer that faces a supplier privileged with private information about supply disruptions. We investigate how risk-management strategies of the manufacturer change, and examine whether risk-management tools ...
Effect of Information Technology Investments on Customer Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
(2005)
This research addresses the following questions: Do information technology (IT) investments have an effect on customer satisfaction? What are the causal mechanisms that mediate the effect of IT systems on customer satisfaction? ...
Economic Effects of Regional Tax Havens
(2004)
How does the opportunity to use tax havens influence economic activity in nearby non-haven countries? Analysis of affiliate-level data indicates that American multinational firms use tax haven affiliates to reallocate ...
Book-Tax Conformity and the Information Content of Earnings
(2006)
We examine whether the information content of earnings is inversely related to the degree of conformity between financial accounting income and taxable income. Our inquiry exploits a natural experiment first examined by ...
Cultural Variation in Response to Strategic Display of Emotions During Negotiations
(2007-01)
This research employed two studies to examine how cultural values and norms influence the effectiveness of the strategic displays of emotions during negotiations. In cross-cultural settings, we evaluated whether the strategic ...