IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2793

Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis

Emmanuel Dhyne, Catherine Fuss, M. Hashem Pesaran, Patrick Sevestre

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2712

A Note on Allen-Uzawa Partial Elasticities of Substitution: The Case of the Translog Cost Function

Atanas Christev, Allen Featherstone

revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (11), 1165 - 1169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2661

Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Joachim Wagner

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2007, 227 (4), 403-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2637

Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Simon Commander, Jan Svejnar

revised version published as 'Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 309 - 337

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2604

Workers’ Flows and Real Wage Cyclicality

Anabela Carneiro, Pedro Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2576

Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry

Kenneth D. Boyer, Stephen V. Burks

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 75 (4), 2009, 1220-1237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2396

On the “Adverse Selection” of Organizations

Matthias Kräkel

published as 'On Adverse Selection of Technologies ' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, 164 (2), 343-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2391

Firm Size, Economic Situation and Influence Activities

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2319

Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope: A Nonparametric Methodology

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: Operations Research, 2008, 56(1), 204-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2296

Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment

Antonio Cabrales, Gary Charness, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Hidden information, bargaining power, and efficiency: an experiment' in: Experimental Economics, 2011, 14, (2), 133-159.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2293

Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka

published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999-1012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2249

Resource Allocation and Firm Scope

Guido Friebel, Michael Raith

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2236

The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite: Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia

Simon Gächter, Benedikt Herrmann

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55(2), 193-210; doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2010.04.003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2188

Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms

John Pencavel, Luigi Pistaferri, Fabiano Schivardi

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 23-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2184

Contributions of Zvi Griliches

James J. Heckman

published in: Annales d'Economie et Statistique, 2005 (Special issue in tribute to Zvi Griliches),79-80, 5 - 22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2143

Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Marco Francesconi, Abhinay Muthoo

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 551-589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2133

Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis

Alice Shiu, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2054

Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts

Matthias Kräkel, Dirk Sliwka

published in: International Economic Review, 2009, 50(1), 117-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2032

Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms

Luigi Benfratello, Fabio Schiantarelli, Alessandro Sembenelli

published in:Journal of Financial Economics, 2008, 90 (2), 197 - 217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2020

The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman, Stephan Meier

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 212-216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2013

Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 70 (3), 458-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1937

The Return to the Firm Investment in Human Capital

Rita K. Almeida, Pedro Carneiro

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (1), 97-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1899

Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk

Refet S. Gürkaynak, Justin Wolfers

published in: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, 2005, 11 - 50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1898

Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity in Price-Cost Margins and the Extent of Rent Sharing at the Sector and Firm Level in France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1865

The Provision of Wage Insurance by the Firm: Evidence from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Dataset

Ana Rute Cardoso, Miguel Portela

published as 'Micro foundations for wage flexibility: Wage insurance at the firm level' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (1), 29-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1851

The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems

William E. Encinosa III, Martin Gaynor, James B. Rebitzer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, 62 (2), 187-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1791

Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence

Fabio Schiantarelli

published in: N. Loayza and L. Serven (eds): The Microeconomic Underpinning of Growth, The World Bank, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1777

How Many Winners Are Good to Have? On Tournaments with Sabotage

Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 65 (3), 682-702

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1697

Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Fishermen in Toyama Bay

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Erika Seki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1672

Exports and Labour Demand: Searching for Functional Structure in Multi-Output Multi-Skill Technologies

Bertrand Koebel

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2006, 24 (1), 91-103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1643

Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion

Florian Englmaier, Achim Wambach

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 312-328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1635

Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions

Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher

published in: Econometrica, 2005, 7 (6), 2017-2030

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1621

Structural Labor Market Changes in France

Marcello Estevão, Nigar Nargis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1556

Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality

Maria Guadalupe

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (3), 439-474

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1541

Returns to Computer Use and Organizational Practices of the Firm

Benoit Dostie, Mathieu Trépanier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1524

Measuring Organizational Capital in the New Economy

Sandra E. Black, Lisa M. Lynch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1484

How Transition Paths Differ: Enterprise Performance in Russia and China

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Saul Estrin

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 82(2): 374-392, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1466

Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing

Sabien Dobbelaere

published in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2004, 22(10): 1381-1398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1457

Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (4), 981-999

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1454

Relational Delegation

Ricardo Alonso, Niko Matouschek

published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2007, 38 (4), 1070 - 1089

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1442

Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity

Felix FitzRoy, Kornelius Kraft

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 43 (2), 233-248

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1423

On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations

Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2006, 22(2), 523-547

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1413

Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument

Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener

published in: Journal of Economics, 2008, 94 (2), 105–124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1352

Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm

Eric Verhoogen, Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (4), 477-498

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1344

Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy

Arno Riedl, Frans van Winden

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (2), 216-232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1340

Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection

Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2005, 161 (4), 636-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1332

Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (2-3), 291–302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1298

Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract

Andreas Roider

revised version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2006, 162(3), 391-411

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1243

Creative Destruction and Transition: The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia

Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets, Kaia Philips

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1201

Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Peter McGoldrick, Patrick Paul Walsh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1185

Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus. First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

substantially revised version published as 'Do exporters really pay higher wages? First evidence from linked employer-employee data' in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72 (1), 52-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1170

The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs

Francis Kramarz, Marie-Laure Michaud

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 27-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1024

Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality

Hartmut Egger, Volker Grossmann

published as "Non-Routine Tasks, Restructuring of Firms, and Wage Inequality Within and Between Skill-Groups" in: Journal of Economics, 2005, 86 (3), 197-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1023

Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye

Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 993

Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s

Angel Calderón-Madrid, Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 987

How Often Should You Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents

Andrea Ichino, Gerd Muehlheusser

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 820-831

IZA Discussion Paper No. 972

Transition on the Shop Floor - The Restructuring of a Weaving Mill, Hungary 1988-97

János Köllő

IZA Discussion Paper No. 971

Creative Destruction and Productivity Growth in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing

Jan De Loecker, Jozef Konings

published as 'Job reallocation and productivity growth in a post-socialist economy: Evidence from Slovenian manufacturing' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (2), 388-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 920

Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Plant Size

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Fabio Schiantarelli

published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 577-598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 914

Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System

Ana Rute Cardoso, Pedro Portugal

published as 'Contractual wages and the wage cushion under different bargaining settings' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (4), 875-902

IZA Discussion Paper No. 897

Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions

Martin Brown, Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr

published in: Econometrica, 2004, 72 (3), 747-780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 892

What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?

Barry Hirsch

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2004, 25 (3), 415-455

IZA Discussion Paper No. 882

The Firm as a Pool of Factor Complementarities

Assar Lindbeck, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 857

An Economic Model of Child Custody

Marco Francesconi, Abhinay Muthoo

revised version published as 'Control Rights in Complex Partnerships' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(3), 551-589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 844

On the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka

revised version published as IZA DP 2293 and in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999 - 1012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 789

Recruitment and Pay at the Establishment Level: Gender Segregation and the Wage Gap in Portugal

José António Cabral Vieira, Ana Rute Cardoso, Miguel Portela

published as 'Gender segregation and the wage gap in Portugal: An analysis at the establishment level' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3 (2), 145-168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 732

Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure

Armin Falk, Andrea Ichino

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (1), 39-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 690

Contracting with Private Information

Marcus Hagedorn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 689

The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms’ Production Factor Decisions

Almas Heshmati, Ilham Haouas

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11 (7), 415-420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 651

Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation

Ekkehart Schlicht

final version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 647

Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

revised version published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2005, 14 (1), 187-207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 566

Skill Biased Technological and Organizational Change: Estimating a Mixed Simultaneous Equation Model Using the IAB Establishment Panel

Reinhard Hujer, Marco Caliendo, Dubravko Radic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 565

Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands

Hans van Kranenburg, Franz C. Palm, Gerard A. Pfann

published as 'Exit and Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands' in: Review of Industrial Organization, 2002, 21 (3), 283-303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 546

Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labor Market: The Case of Austria

Alfred M. Stiglbauer, Florian Stahl, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Empirica 30, 2003, 127-148.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 544

Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations

Pedro Portugal, Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (5), 988-1013. Reprinted in J. T. Addison (ed.) Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Vol. I, UK, 2007, 179-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 491

On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War

Ralph Rotte, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2003, 14 (3), 175-192; see IZA Reprints 176/03

IZA Discussion Paper No. 464

The Hold-Down Problem and the Boundaries of the Firm: Lesson from a Hidden Action Model with Endogenous Outside Option

Wendelin Schnedler, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 458

Inventories, Employment and Hours

Marzio Galeotti, Louis J. Maccini, Fabio Schiantarelli

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2005, 52 (3), 575-600

IZA Discussion Paper No. 322