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Stockholm School of Economics
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About: Stockholm School of Economics is a education organization based out in Stockholm, Sweden. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Entrepreneurship. The organization has 1186 authors who have published 4891 publications receiving 285543 citations. The organization is also known as: Stockholm Business School & Handelshögskolan i Stockholm.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how changes in the commitment power of a principal affect cooperation among agents who work in a team and find that unless the principal can commit herself to long-term wage contracts, an implicit sabotage incentive emerges.
Abstract: We investigate how changes in the commitment power of a principal affect cooperation among agents who work in a team. When the principal and her agents are symmetrically uncertain about the agents’ innate abilities, workers have career concerns. Then, unless the principal can commit herself to long‐term wage contracts, an implicit sabotage incentive emerges. Agents become reluctant to help their teammates. Anticipating this risk, and in order to induce the desired level of cooperation, the principal offers more collectively oriented incentive schemes. Temporary workers, though, are not affected by the sabotage effect, and their incentives are more individually oriented.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries and find support for a positional concern effect or envy whose magnitude in several cases is quite substantial.
Abstract: Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We find support for a positional concern effect or ‘envy’ whose magnitude in several cases is quite substantial. The results indicate that such an effect is non-linear. In addition, we find an indication that absolute income level is also relevant. Lastly, changing the reference group (regional versus national) produces no significant differences in the results.
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TL;DR: It is found that the most significant association reported in previous research between the amount donated in a dictator game and an OXTR genetic variant cannot be replicated.
Abstract: Background: Oxytocin (OXT) has been implicated in a suite of complex social behaviors including observed choices in economic laboratory experiments. However, actual studies of associations between oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene variants and experimentally elicited social preferences are rare. Methodology/Principal Findings: We test hypotheses of associations between social preferences, as measured by behavior in two economic games, and 9 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the OXTR gene in a sample of Swedish twins (n=684). Two standard economic games, the dictator game and the trust game, both involving real monetary consequences, were used to elicit such preferences. After correction for multiple hypothesis testing, we found no significant associations between any of the 9 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and behavior in either of the games. Conclusion: We were unable to replicate the most significant association reported in previous research between the amount donated in a dictator game and an OXTR genetic variant.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effects of bank bailouts on the supply of credit and the performance of banks' clients and find that the size of capital injections relative to the initial financial condition of banks is crucial for the success of bank bailout.
Abstract: Exploiting the Japanese banking crisis of the 1990s as a laboratory, we investigate the effects of bank bailouts on the supply of credit and the performance of banks’ clients. Our findings indicate that the size of capital injections relative to the initial financial condition of banks is crucial for the success of bank bailouts. Capital injections that are large enough to reestablish bank capital requirements increase the supply of credit and spur investment. In contrast, not only do capital injections that are too small fail to increase the supply of credit, but they also encourage the evergreening of nonperforming loans. (JEL E44, G21, G28, G32, G34)
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TL;DR: This paper found that the average willingness to pay for a program which would increase the expected length of life by one year, conditional on having survived to the age of 75 years, is lower than $1,500.
Abstract: This study reports an attempt to measure the value of an increased survival probability at advanced ages. It turns out that the average willingness to pay for a program which would increase the expected length of life by one year, conditional on having survived to the age of 75 years, is lower than $1,500. The willingness to pay increases with a person's age, but at a low and seemingly constant rate (1–4 percent per year).
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Magnus Johannesson | 102 | 342 | 40776 |
Thomas J. Sargent | 96 | 370 | 39224 |
Bengt Jönsson | 81 | 365 | 33623 |
J. Scott Armstrong | 76 | 445 | 33552 |
Johan Wiklund | 74 | 288 | 30038 |
Per Davidsson | 71 | 309 | 32262 |
Julian Birkinshaw | 64 | 233 | 29262 |
Timo Teräsvirta | 62 | 224 | 20403 |
Lars E.O. Svensson | 61 | 188 | 20666 |
Jonathan D. Ostry | 59 | 232 | 11776 |
Alexander Ljungqvist | 59 | 139 | 14466 |
Richard Green | 58 | 468 | 14244 |
Bo Jönsson | 57 | 294 | 11984 |
Magnus Henrekson | 56 | 261 | 13346 |
Assar Lindbeck | 54 | 234 | 13761 |