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Origin Matters: The Differential Impact of Import Competition on Innovation?
(2015-12)
We examine the impact of import competition on firms’ innovation input and output. We conjecture that U.S. firms view import competition from high-wage countries (HWCs) as “neck-and-neck” competition and will respond by ...
Why do spouses hide income?
(Elsevier, 2012-10)
This paper proposes a simplified model of intrahousehold decision making where cooperative and noncooperative behavior are not mutually exclusive. Individuals choose the optimal share of income they wish to devote towards ...
The Growing Climate Divide
(2011-06)
Climate change has reached the level of a scientific consensus, but has not yet reached the level of a social consensus. The major obstacle towards achieving that end is the increasing partisan and ideological polarization ...
Price Jump Indicators: Stock Market Empirics During the Crisis
(2013-06-01)
We analyze the behavior and performance of multiple price jump indicators across markets and over time. By using highfrequency stock market data we identify clusters of price jump indicators that share similar properties ...
THE FUNDING AND EFFICIENCY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN CROATIA AND SLOVENIA: A NON-PARAMETRIC COMPARISON WITH EU AND OECD COUNTRIES
(2011-01-01)
The paper applies a non-parametric approach, i.e. data envelopment analysis (DEA), to assess the relative technical efficiency of higher education across countries, with a particular focus on Croatia and Slovenia. When ...
How Should Retirement Plans Be Organized?
(2016-10)
Americans have a tough time saving for their retirement. To make matters worse, the move from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution plans (DC) over the years has required greater investor sophistication, discipline, ...
Ailing Mothers, Healthy Daughters? Contagion in the Central European Banking Sector
(2014-01-01)
Foreign-dominated banking sectors, such as those prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe, are susceptible to two major sources of systemic risk: (i) linkages between local banks and (ii) linkages between a foreign mother ...
Management as a Calling: A Blueprint for Management Education in the 21st Century
(2018-09)
Business’s capacity to transform society is only as great as the schools that train its future leaders. This demands that business schools reform their vision to promote values of business serving society in order for ...
Perceptions of Women and Men Leaders Following 360‐Degree Feedback Evaluations
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013)
In this study, researchers used a customized 360‐degree method to examine the frequency with which 1,546 men and 721 women leaders perceived themselves and were perceived by colleagues as using 10 relational and 10 ...
Who Killed the Inner Circle? The Decline of the American Corporate Interlock Network
(2015-10)
U.S. corporations shared members of their boards of directors since the early 1900s, creating a dense interlock network in which nearly every major corporation and director was connected through short paths and elevating ...