IPR Publications, Business, Work, and Government Working Papers


Business, Work and Government Working Papers

(Arranged by Author)


Rebecca Blank
WP-94-19 Changes in Inequality and Unemployment Over the 1980s: Comparative Cross-National Responses
Rebecca M. Blank
Richard R.W. Brooks
WP-01-11 A Liability Theory of Organizational Structure: Theory and Evidence from the Oil Shipping Industry
Richard R. W. Brooks
Ian Domowitz
WP-96-19 The Market for Equity Markets: The Classification and Regulation of Automated Trading Systems
Ian Domowitz and Ruben Lee
WP-96-30 Regulation of Automated Trading Systems
Ian Domowitz and Ruben Lee
WP-94-28 Mergers and Market Power in the Global Financial Exchange Services Industry
Ian Domowitz
WP-93-31 Financial Market Automation and the Investment Services Directive
Ian Domowitz
WP-93-32 An Exchange is a Many-Splendored Thing: The Classification and Regulation of Automated Trading Systems
Ian Domowitz
David Dranove
WP-98-09 Responses of Medical R&D to Changing Economic Incentives: Implications for the Future of Health Care Costs and Quality
David Dranove and Burton A. Weisbrod
Greg Duncan
WP-95-01 Do Generous Social-Assistance Programs Lead to Dependence? A Comparative Study of Lone-Parent Families in Germany and the United States
Greg J. Duncan and Wolfgang Voges
Edward Gibson
WP-97-17 Electoral Coalitions and Market Reforms: Evidence from Argentina
Edward L. Gibson and Ernesto Calvo
Shane Greenstein
WP-00-11 Commercialization of the Internet: The Interaction of Public Policy and Private Choices
Shane Greenstein
WP-00-29 Universal Access and Local Commercial Internet Markets
Tom Downes and Shane Greenstein
Donald Haider
WP-96-29 The Impact of Changing State and Federal Roles on Local Governments
Donald Haider
Paul Hirsch
WP-00-10 Framing Globalization: The Battle for Definitions of a Contested Issue
Peer C. Fiss and Paul M. Hirsch
WP-98-13 The Impact of Deregulation on America's Infrastructure Industries: A "Process Model" with Illustrations from Banking
Paul Hirsch, Steven Klinkerman and Michael Lounsbury
Luojia Hu  
WP-00-28 Who Gets Good Jobs? The Hiring Decisions and Compensation Structures of Large Firms
Luojia Hu
Michael Lounsbury  
WP-98-13 The Impact of Deregulation on America's Infrastructure Industries: A "Process Model" with Illustrations from Banking
Paul Hirsch, Steven Klinkerman and Michael Lounsbury
Paul Oyer
WP-99-25 Litigation Costs and Returns to Experience
Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer
WP-99-26 Sorting, Quotas, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991: Who Hires When It's Hard to Fire?
Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer
WP-98-34 Layoffs and Litigation
Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer
Benjamin Page
WP-97-06 Trouble for Workers and the Poor: Economic Globalization and the Reshaping of American Politics
Benjamin I. Page
William Rogerson
WP-94-29 Efficiency in Government: Transfer Pricing and Military Aircraft Maintenance
William P. Rogerson
WP-93-33 Economic Incentives and the Defense Procurement Process
William P. Rogerson
James Rosenbaum
WP-94-20 Improving the School-Work Transition: Lessons from Japan and Their Applicability to American Teachers, Employers, and Students
James E. Rosenbaum and Stephanie Alter Jones
Scott Schafer
WP-98-34 Layoffs and Litigation
Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer
Ben Ross Schneider
WP-99-12 Business Associations and Economic Development
Richard F. Doner and Ben Ross Schneider
Mark Shanley
WP-96-31 Network Interpretations of Non-Market Bureaucracies: The Case of a State Children's Services Agency
Mark T. Shanley and Michael Lounsbury
Bruce D. Spencer  
WP-01-08 Uncertainty and Ambiguity in the 2001 Decision Against Census Adjustment for Redistricting
Mary H. Mulry amd Bruce D. Spencer
WP-00-27 A Method for Deciding Whether Adjustment of Census 2000 Improves Redistricting
Bruce D. Spencer
Peter Swenson
WP-00-30 Foul Weather Friends: Big Business and Health Care Reform in the 1990s in Historical Perspective
Peter Swenson
WP-99-27 Varieties of Capitalist Interests and Illusions of Labor Power: Employers in the Making of the Swedish and American Welfare States
Peter Swenson
WP-95-29 Arranged Alliance: Business and the New Deal's Cross-Class Coalition
Peter Swenson
Kathleen Thelen
WP-00-09 The Paradox of Globalization: Turning the Tables on Labor and Capital in German Industrial Relations
Kathleen Thelen and Christa van Wijnbergen
Brian Uzzi
WP-01-09 Social Networks and Knowledge Transfer in Debt Markets: An Embeddedness Approach
Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster
WP-01-10 Legal Charges: Embeddedness and Price Formation in Corporate Law
Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster
WP-00-12 How Embedded Ties Transfer Benefits Through Networks: Banking Relationships and the Firm's Strategic Use of Trade Credit Financing
Brian Uzzi and James J. Gillespie
WP-00-13 Getting the Best Deal: The Governance Benefits of Social Networks in Commercial Loans
Brian Uzzi
WP-98-10 Social Embeddedness and Corporate Financing: The Benefits of Social Networks in the Acquisition and Cost of Capital
Brian Uzzi and James J. Gillespie
WP-98-12 The Social Structure of World Trade Advantage: Structural Autonomy and Contingent Value, 1965-1980
Michael Alan Sacks, Brian Uzzi, and Marc Ventresca
Marc Ventresca
WP-98-11 Industries as Organizational Fields: Infrastructure and Formative Dynamics in U.S. Online Database Services
Marc Ventresca, Rodney Lacey, Michael Lounsbury, and Dara Szyliowicz
WP-99-12 The Social Structure of World Trade Advantage: Structural Autonomy and Contingent Value, 1965-1980
Michael Alan Sacks, Brian Uzzi, and Marc Ventresca
Michael Wallerstein
WP-96-12 Unions, Employers Associations, and Wage-Setting Institutions in North and Central Europe, 1950-1992
Michael Wallerstein, Miriam Golden, and Peter Lange
WP-96-13 Job Creation and Job Destruction with Local and Centralized Wage-Setting
Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein
WP-95-07 The Persistence of Slack and Tight Labor Markets
Karl Ove Moene, Ragnar Nymoen, and Michael Wallerstein
WP-95-08 The Impact of Economic Integration on European Wage-Setting Institutions
Michael Wallerstein
Burton Weisbrod
WP-98-09 Responses of Medical R&D to Changing Economic Incentives: Implications for the Future of Health Care Costs and Quality
David Dranove and Burton A. Weisbrod
WP-96-20 Complaints and Geographic Mobility as Responses to Dissatisfaction with Public Services. Paul J. Devereux and Burton A. Weisbrod
James C. Witte
WP-98-03 Education, Overeducation, and Youth Employment in the United States and Germany: The Mechanics of Restructuring
James C. Witte
WP-96-16 Employment Effects on East German Fertility After Unification
James C. Witte and Gert G. Wagner
WP-94-21 Declining Fertility in East Germany after Unification: A Demographic Response to Socio-Economic Change
James C. Witte and Gert G. Wagner
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