Ingmar Nyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 11125302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingmar Nyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingmar |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyman |
| SIGNATURE | NYMAN I |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Job Hoarding
We study a labor market in which employers and workers search for a trading partner, and workers have private information about the value of a match. We show that competitive pressure can induce workers to take jobs for which they are ill suited. This leads to insufficient frictional unemployment and search, and lower average productivity and utility. A fully tax-financed unemployment benefit can eliminate the inefficiency. Moreover, because inef…
Yes Men in Tournaments
We study a rank-order tournament in which employees acquire and use private information for an investment decision. In this environment, competition can turn employees into yes men who make investment decisions that excessively agree with preconceived notions. The specter of yes-man behavior may drive the tournament incentive intensity and the employees' information-collection effort either to zero or above the first-best efficient levels. We als…
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Yes Men in Tournaments
We study a rank-order tournament in which employees acquire and use private information for an investment decision. In this environment, competition can turn employees into yes men who make investment decisions that excessively agree with preconceived notions. The specter of yes-man behavior may drive the tournament incentive intensity and the employees' information-collection effort either to zero or above the first-best efficient levels. We als…
Job Hoarding
We study a labor market in which employers and workers search for a trading partner, and workers have private information about the value of a match. We show that competitive pressure can induce workers to take jobs for which they are ill suited. This leads to insufficient frictional unemployment and search, and lower average productivity and utility. A fully tax-financed unemployment benefit can eliminate the inefficiency. Moreover, because inef…
Auction Theory and Applications (1 work) · Employment and Welfare Studies (1 work) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (1 work) · Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (1 work) · Hoarding (animal behavior) (1 work) · Internal Medicine (1 work) · Medicine (1 work) · Political science (1 work) · Psychology (1 work)