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The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the trend of many colleges moving to test-optional, and in some cases test-blind, admissions policies. A frequent claim is that by not seeing standardized test scores, a college is able to admit a student body th
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http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07551
http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07551
Autor:
Wouter Dessein, Andrea Prat
Publikováno v:
Journal of Political Economy. 130:1477-1536
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https://doi.org/10.1086/718985
https://doi.org/10.1086/718985
Autor:
Wouter Dessein, Tano Santos
Publikováno v:
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. 13:372-403
Is firm behavior mainly driven by its environment or rather by the characteristics of its managers? We develop a cognitive theory of manager fixed effects, where the allocation of managerial attention determines firm behavior. We show that in complex
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https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20190025
https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20190025
How does task expertise affect the allocation of attention? Our theory argues that when attention is scarce, expertise and attention are complements: A manager optimally focuses her attention on tasks in which she has relatively more expertise; she
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We explore the relationship between the volatility of a firm’s local environment and its organizational structure. Using micro-level data on managers working for a large retailer, we empirically test and provide support for our theory that a more v
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Publikováno v:
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 32:508-544
Delegation is a central feature of organizational design that theory suggests should be aligned with the intensity of incentives. We explore a specific form of delegation, namely price delegation, whereby firms allow sales people to offer a maximum d
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https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/eww003
https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/eww003
Publikováno v:
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. 7:158-87
We examine the relationship between the organization of a multi-divisional firm and its ability to adapt production decisions to changes in the environment. We show that even if lower-level managers have superior information about local conditions, a
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http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/mic.20130100
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/mic.20130100
Autor:
Wouter Dessein, Richard Holden
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We analyze a model of hierarchies in organizations where neither decisions themselves nor the delegation of decisions are contractible, and where power-hungry agents derive a private benefit from making decisions. Two distinct agency problems arise a
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https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3024631
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3024631
Autor:
Wouter Dessein, Andrea Prat
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We argue that economists have studied the role of management from three perspectives: contingency theory (CT), an organization-centric empirical approach (OC), and a leader-centric empirical approach (LC). To reconcile these three perspectives, we au
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https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3024285
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3024285
Autor:
Brian Thomas, Stephen P. Zeldes, Patrick Bolton, Eli Noam, Andrea Prat, Frank Edwards, Lynne Sagalyn, Jonah Rockoff, Charles M. Jones, Wouter Dessein, Ann P. Bartel, Gur Huberman, Christopher J. Mayer, Andrew Ang, Lawrence Glosten, Geoffrey Heal, Frederic Mishkin
Publikováno v:
Columbia Business School: A Century of Ideas
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https://doi.org/10.7312/thom17402-002
https://doi.org/10.7312/thom17402-002