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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788227903321

Autore

Valderrama Laura

Titolo

Institutional Inertia / / Laura Valderrama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-1742-1

1-282-84402-4

9786612844027

1-4527-2181-5

1-4518-7340-9

Descrizione fisica

25 p

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Technological innovations

Industrial management

Investments: Metals

Labor

Production and Operations Management

Innovation

Research and Development

Technological Change

Intellectual Property Rights: General

Macroeconomics: Production

Metals and Metal Products

Cement

Glass

Ceramics

Human Capital

Skills

Occupational Choice

Labor Productivity

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Technology

general issues

Macroeconomics

Labour

income economics

Investment & securities

Productivity

Gold



Human capital

Wages

Industrial productivity

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

We study the relative efficiency of outside-owned versus employee-owned firms and analyze implications for institutional change in a context of technological innovation. When decisions are made through majority voting, the vote on technology choice is used to influence the later vote on the sharing rule. We show how this dynamic voting generates a systematic technological bias that is contingent on firm ownership. We provide conditions under which the pivotal voter's political leverage leads the firm to an institutional trap whereby majority voting and inefficient technology choice reinforce each other, leading to institutional inertia.