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Michael Keren

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Affiliation

The Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel
Department of Economics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Israel
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Working papers

  1. Cavaleri, Pietro & Keren, Michael & Ramello, Giovanni B. & Valli, Vittorio, 2009. "Publishing an E-journal on a shoe string: Is it a sustainaible project?," POLIS Working Papers 118, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.

Articles

  1. Michael Keren, 2021. "The Soft Budget Constraint at 40: Alternative Perspectives on Its Origins," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 63(1), pages 139-146, March.
  2. Michael Keren, 2014. "The Yugoslav Firm versus a Wardian LMF, a Socialist Firm and a LMF in a Capitalist Market," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 56(4), pages 676-695, December.
  3. Michael Keren, 2009. "China and India - a Note on the Influence of Hierarchy vs. Polyarchy on Economic Growth," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 6(2), pages 325-346, December.
  4. Piero Cavaleri & Michael Keren & Giovanni B. Ramello & Vittorio Valli, 2009. "Publishing an E-Journal on a Shoe String: Is It a Sustainable Project?," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 89-101, March.
  5. Dafna Schwartz & Joseph Pelzman & Michael Keren, 2008. "The Ineffectiveness of Location Incentive Programs," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 22(2), pages 167-179, May.
  6. Dafna Schwartz & Michael Keren, 2006. "Location incentives and the unintentional generation of employment instability:some evidence from Israel," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 40(2), pages 449-460, June.
  7. Michael Keren, 2004. "The State and Two Revolutions: A Porperian Perspective," Homo Oeconomicus, Institute of SocioEconomics, vol. 21, pages 197-224.
  8. Michael Keren & Gur Ofer, 2002. "The Role of FDI in Trade and Financial Services in Transition: What Distinguishes Transition Economies from Developing Economies?," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 44(1), pages 15-45, April.
  9. Michael Keren, 1993. "On the (Im)possibility of Market Socialism," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 19(3), pages 333-344, Summer.
  10. Michael Keren, 1993. "Survey Article: Optimal Tautness and the Economics of Incentives in Bureaucracies," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 35(1), pages 85-117, April.
  11. Keren, Michael & Levhari, David, 1992. "Some capital market failures in the socialist labor-managed economy," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 16(4), pages 655-669, December.
  12. Keren, Michael & Levhari, David, 1989. "Decentralization, aggregation, control loss and costs in a hierarchical model of the firm," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 11(2), pages 213-236, March.
  13. Michael Keren, 1987. "Consumer prices in the GDR since 1950: The construction of price indices from purchasing power parities," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(2), pages 247-268.
  14. Keren, Michael & Weinblatt, J, 1984. "A Geometrical Approach to Real Income Comparisons: A Comment on Samuelson's 'Analytical Notes on International Real-Income Measures.'," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 94(374), pages 258-264, June.
  15. Keren, Michael & Miller, Jeffrey & Thornton, James R., 1983. "The Ratchet: A dynamic managerial incentive model of the soviet enterprise," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 7(4), pages 347-367, December.
  16. Keren, Michael, 1983. "The ministry and the ratchet: A rejoinder to Granick," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 7(4), pages 444-448, December.
  17. Michael Keren & David Levhari, 1983. "The Internal Organization of the Firm and the Shape of Average Costs," Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 14(2), pages 474-486, Autumn.
  18. Keren, Michael, 1982. "The ministry, plan changes, and the ratchet in planning," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 6(4), pages 327-342, December.
  19. Keren, Michael, 1979. "The incentive effects of plan targets and priorities in a disaggregated model," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 3(1), pages 1-26, March.
  20. Michael Keren & David Levhari, 1979. "The Optimum Span of Control in a Pure Hierarchy," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 25(11), pages 1162-1172, November.
  21. Michael Keren, 1976. "Economic reform in Polish industry: The reform that never was?," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(3), pages 433-443.
  22. Michael Keren, 1976. "Foreign trade in the economic reforms of the GDR," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(1), pages 118-132.
  23. Michael Keren, 1973. "The new economic system in the GDR: An obituary," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 554-587.
  24. Michael Keren, 1972. "On the Tautness of Plans," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 39(4), pages 469-486.
  25. Keren, Michael, 1972. "Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: Comment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 62(1), pages 149-149, March.

Chapters

  1. Michael Keren, 2021. "The Hard Budget Constraint as the Pillar of the Economy," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Wladimir Andreff (ed.), Comparative Economic Studies in Europe, edition 1, pages 57-72, Palgrave Macmillan.
  2. Michael Keren & Gur Ofer, 2007. "Are Transition Economies Normal Developing Countries? The Burden of the Socialist Past," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Saul Estrin & Grzegorz W. Kolodko & Milica Uvalic (ed.), Transition and Beyond, chapter 3, pages 58-85, Palgrave Macmillan.
  3. Michael Keren, 2000. "Transforming Socialist Networks," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Eckehard F. Rosenbaum & Frank Bönker & Hans-Jürgen Wagener (ed.), Privatization, Corporate Governance and the Emergence of Markets, chapter 13, pages 207-222, Palgrave Macmillan.
  4. Michael Keren, 1999. "The big bang as a motivating device," Chapters, in: Michael Fritsch & Horst Brezinski (ed.), Innovation and Technological Change in Eastern Europe, chapter 4, pages 50-63, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Editorship

  1. European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC).

Citations

Many of the citations below have been collected in an experimental project, CitEc, where a more detailed citation analysis can be found. These are citations from works listed in RePEc that could be analyzed mechanically. So far, only a minority of all works could be analyzed. See under "Corrections" how you can help improve the citation analysis.

Working papers

  1. Cavaleri, Pietro & Keren, Michael & Ramello, Giovanni B. & Valli, Vittorio, 2009. "Publishing an E-journal on a shoe string: Is it a sustainaible project?," POLIS Working Papers 118, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.

    Cited by:

    1. Phoebe Koundouri & Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Osiel Gonzalez Davila & Amerissa Giannouli & Nikolaos Kourogenis & Anastasios Xepapadeas & Peter A. Xepapadeas, 2020. "Open Access in Scientific Information: Sustainability Model and Business Plan for the Infrastructure and Organisation of OpenAIRE," DEOS Working Papers 2001, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    2. Matteo Migheli & Giovanni Battista Ramello, 2018. "The market of academic attention," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 114(1), pages 113-133, January.
    3. Migheli Matteo & Ramello, Giovanni B., 2013. "Open Access, Social Norms & Publication Choice," IEL Working Papers 13, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.
    4. Orso, Cristina Elisa, 2009. "Formal and informal sectors: Interactions between moneylenders and traditional banks in the rural Indian credit market," POLIS Working Papers 135, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.
    5. Marchese, Carla & Ramello, Giovanni B., 2010. "In the beginning was the Word. Now is the Copyright," POLIS Working Papers 140, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.
    6. Frank Mueller-Langer & Marc Scheufen, 2013. "Academic publishing and open access," Chapters, in: Ruth Towse & Christian Handke (ed.), Handbook on the Digital Creative Economy, chapter 32, pages 365-377, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    7. Matteo Migheli & Giovanni Ramello, 2013. "Open access, social norms and publication choice," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 35(2), pages 149-167, April.
    8. Eberhard Feess & Marc Scheufen, 2016. "Academic copyright in the publishing game: a contest perspective," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 42(2), pages 263-294, October.
    9. Privileggi, Fabio, 2008. "On the transition dynamics in endogenous recombinant growth models," POLIS Working Papers 120, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.
    10. Bondonio, Daniele, 2009. "Impact identification strategies for evaluating business incentive programs," POLIS Working Papers 129, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.
    11. Giuranno, Michele, 2009. "The logic of party coalitions with political activism and public financing," POLIS Working Papers 134, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.

Articles

  1. Michael Keren, 2009. "China and India - a Note on the Influence of Hierarchy vs. Polyarchy on Economic Growth," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 6(2), pages 325-346, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Enrico Marelli & Marcello Signorelli, 2011. "China and India: Openness, Trade and Effects on Economic Growth," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 8(1), pages 129-154, June.

  2. Piero Cavaleri & Michael Keren & Giovanni B. Ramello & Vittorio Valli, 2009. "Publishing an E-Journal on a Shoe String: Is It a Sustainable Project?," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 89-101, March.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Dafna Schwartz & Joseph Pelzman & Michael Keren, 2008. "The Ineffectiveness of Location Incentive Programs," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 22(2), pages 167-179, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Shelley M. Kimelberg & Elizabeth Williams, 2013. "Evaluating the Importance of Business Location Factors: The Influence of Facility Type," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(1), pages 92-117, March.
    2. Linda Lobao & P. Wilner Jeanty & Mark Partridge & David Kraybill, 2012. "Poverty and Place across the United States," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 35(2), pages 158-187, April.
    3. Robert T. Greenbaum & Blair D. Russell & Tricia L. Petras, 2010. "Measuring the Distribution of Economic Development Tax Incentive Intensity," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 24(2), pages 154-168, May.
    4. Robert T. Greenbaum & Jim Landers, 2009. "Why Are State Policy Makers Still Proponents of Enterprise Zones? What Explains Their Action in the Face of a Preponderance of the Research?," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 32(4), pages 466-479, October.
    5. Susan Mason & Kenneth P. Thomas, 2010. "Tax Increment Financing in Missouri: An Analysis of Determinants, Competitive Dynamics, Equity, and Path Dependency," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 24(2), pages 169-179, May.

  4. Dafna Schwartz & Michael Keren, 2006. "Location incentives and the unintentional generation of employment instability:some evidence from Israel," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 40(2), pages 449-460, June.

    Cited by:

    1. Dafna Schwartz & Joseph Pelzman & Michael Keren, 2008. "The Ineffectiveness of Location Incentive Programs," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 22(2), pages 167-179, May.
    2. Daniel Felsenstein, 2015. "Factors Affecting Regional Productivity and Innovation in Israel: Some Empirical Evidence," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(9), pages 1457-1468, September.
    3. Daniel Felsenstein, 2011. "Capital Deepening and Regional Inequality: An Empirical Analysis (refereed paper)," ERSA conference papers ersa10p759, European Regional Science Association.
    4. Michael Beenstock & Daniel Felsenstein & Nadav Ben Zeev, 2011. "Capital deepening and regional inequality: an empirical analysis," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 47(3), pages 599-617, December.

  5. Michael Keren & Gur Ofer, 2002. "The Role of FDI in Trade and Financial Services in Transition: What Distinguishes Transition Economies from Developing Economies?," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 44(1), pages 15-45, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Nir Kshetri & Ralf Bebenroth, 2011. "Sources of Global Heterogeneity in Retail Spending," Discussion Paper Series DP2011-03, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University.

  6. Michael Keren, 1993. "On the (Im)possibility of Market Socialism," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 19(3), pages 333-344, Summer.

    Cited by:

    1. Mehrdad VAHABI, 2001. "The Soft Budget Constraint : A Theoretical Clarification," Discussion Papers (REL - Recherches Economiques de Louvain) 2001024, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
    2. Vahabi, Mehrdad, 2003. "La contrainte budgétaire lâche et la théorie économique [Soft Budget Constraint and Economic Theory]," MPRA Paper 17651, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Mario Ferrero, 2004. "A Rational Theory of Socialist Public Ownership," Rationality and Society, , vol. 16(4), pages 371-397, November.
    4. Vahabi, Mehrdad, 2002. "The Soft Budget Constraint: An Institutionalist Approach," MPRA Paper 17649, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Mario Ferrero, 2024. "Left, right, or neither? Islamism as social blueprint," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 35(4), pages 500-522, December.

  7. Michael Keren, 1993. "Survey Article: Optimal Tautness and the Economics of Incentives in Bureaucracies," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 35(1), pages 85-117, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Brixiova, Zuzana & Bulir, Ales, 2003. "Output performance under central planning: a model of poor incentives," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 27-39, March.

  8. Keren, Michael & Levhari, David, 1992. "Some capital market failures in the socialist labor-managed economy," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 16(4), pages 655-669, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Mario Ferrero, 2004. "A Rational Theory of Socialist Public Ownership," Rationality and Society, , vol. 16(4), pages 371-397, November.

  9. Keren, Michael & Levhari, David, 1989. "Decentralization, aggregation, control loss and costs in a hierarchical model of the firm," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 11(2), pages 213-236, March.

    Cited by:

    1. Colombo, Massimo G. & Delmastro, Marco, 1999. "Some stylized facts on organization and its evolution," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 255-274, November.
    2. DeCanio, Stephen J. & Watkins, William E., 1998. "Information processing and organizational structure," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 275-294, August.
    3. Nathalie Greenan & Emmanuelle Walkowiak, 2005. "Informatique, organisation du travail et intéractions sociales," Econometrics 0505008, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Phillip J. Lederer & Xiaobo Zheng, 2021. "Can information economics explain the organization of productive facilities?," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(3), pages 525-553, August.
    5. Andrea Patacconi, 2009. "Coordination and delay in hierarchies," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 40(1), pages 190-208, March.
    6. Ira N. Gang & Gil S. Epstein, 2002. "Rent Seeking in Hierarchical Firms," Departmental Working Papers 200218, Rutgers University, Department of Economics.
    7. Massimo G. Colombo & Marco Delmastro, 2004. "Delegation of Authority In Business Organizations: An Empirical Test," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(1), pages 53-80, March.
    8. Frenzen, Heiko & Hansen, Ann-Kristin & Krafft, Manfred & Mantrala, Murali K. & Schmidt, Simone, 2010. "Delegation of pricing authority to the sales force: An agency-theoretic perspective of its determinants and impact on performance," International Journal of Research in Marketing, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 58-68.
    9. Paola Rovelli & Vincenzo Butticè, 2020. "On the organizational design of entrepreneurial ventures: the configurations of the entrepreneurial team," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 47(2), pages 243-269, June.
    10. Saikat Datta, 1996. "On Control Losses In Hierarchies," Rationality and Society, , vol. 8(4), pages 387-412, November.
    11. Hugh Mandele & Arjen Witteloostuijn, 2015. "The inevitability and irreversibility of organizational uncontrollability," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 380-405, December.
    12. Mehmet Bac, 2007. "Optimal supervision intensity, collusion, and the organization of work," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 40(1), pages 317-339, February.
    13. Andrea Patacconi, 2005. "Optimal Coordination in Hierarchies," Economics Series Working Papers 238, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    14. Colombo, Massimo G. & Foss, Nicolai J. & Lyngsie, Jacob & Rossi Lamastra, Cristina, 2021. "What drives the delegation of innovation decisions? The roles of firm innovation strategy and the nature of external knowledge," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(1).
    15. Massimo G. Colombo & Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, 2013. "The organizational design of high- tech start- ups: state of the art and directions for future research," Chapters, in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, chapter 21, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    16. Kimiko Terai & Amihai Glazer, 2014. "Insufficient Experimentation Because Agents Herd," Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series 2014-008, Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University.
    17. Grimpe, Christoph & Murmann, Martin & Sofka, Wolfgang, 2017. "The organizational design of high-tech startups and product innovation," ZEW Discussion Papers 17-074, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    18. Pérez, Jessica Helen & Iranzo Sancho, Susana, 2012. "Determinants of Decentralization within the Firm: Some Empirical Evidence from Spanish Small and Medium- Sized Enterprise," Working Papers 2072/211755, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics.
    19. Tobias Hiller, 2021. "Hierarchy and the size of a firm," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 68(3), pages 389-404, September.
    20. Nathalie Greenan & Jacques Mairesse, 1999. "Organizational Change in French Manufacturing: What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?," NBER Working Papers 7285, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    21. Mendelson, Haim & Pillai, Ravindran R., 1999. "Information Age organizations, dynamics and performance," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 38(3), pages 253-281, March.
    22. Massimo G. Colombo & Luca Grilli, 2013. "The Creation of A Middle‐Management Level by Entrepreneurial Ventures: Testing Economic Theories of Organizational Design," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(2), pages 390-422, June.
    23. Kouroche Vafaï, 2012. "Optimal Organization," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 32(1), pages 518-527.

  10. Michael Keren, 1987. "Consumer prices in the GDR since 1950: The construction of price indices from purchasing power parities," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(2), pages 247-268.

    Cited by:

    1. Michael Keren, 2009. "China and India - a Note on the Influence of Hierarchy vs. Polyarchy on Economic Growth," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 6(2), pages 325-346, December.

  11. Keren, Michael & Miller, Jeffrey & Thornton, James R., 1983. "The Ratchet: A dynamic managerial incentive model of the soviet enterprise," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 7(4), pages 347-367, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Kornai, János & Maskin, Eric & Roland, Gérard, 2004. "A puha költségvetési korlát I [The soft budget constraint I]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(7), pages 608-624.
    2. J. Kornai & E. Maskin & G. Roland, 2004. "Understanding the Soft Budget Constraint," Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP Voprosy Ekonomiki, issue 11.

  12. Michael Keren & David Levhari, 1983. "The Internal Organization of the Firm and the Shape of Average Costs," Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 14(2), pages 474-486, Autumn.

    Cited by:

    1. Colombo, Massimo G. & Delmastro, Marco, 1999. "Some stylized facts on organization and its evolution," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 255-274, November.
    2. DeCanio, Stephen J. & Watkins, William E., 1998. "Information processing and organizational structure," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 275-294, August.
    3. Jason R. Barro & Robert J. Barro, 1990. "Pay, Performance, and Turnover of Bank CEOs," NBER Working Papers 3262, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Ruys, P.H.M. & van den Brink, J.R. & Semenov, R., 1999. "Values and Governance Systems," Other publications TiSEM 7b3f7549-e97f-4e5b-92e6-2, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    5. Oliver Hart & Sanford Grossman, 1985. "The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration," Working papers 372, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics.
    6. René Brink & Pieter Ruys, 2008. "Technology driven organizational structure of the firm," Annals of Finance, Springer, vol. 4(4), pages 481-503, October.
    7. Watts, Alison, 2001. "A Dynamic Model of Network Formation," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 331-341, February.
    8. Tomohiro Hayashida & Ichiro Nishizaki & Rika Kambara, 2014. "Simulation Analysis for Network Formulation," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 43(3), pages 371-394, March.
    9. Andreas Blume & April Franco, 2002. "Learning from failure," Staff Report 299, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
    10. Paola Rovelli & Vincenzo Butticè, 2020. "On the organizational design of entrepreneurial ventures: the configurations of the entrepreneurial team," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 47(2), pages 243-269, June.
    11. Dimitri Vayanos, 2003. "The Decentralization of Information Processing in the Presence of Interactions," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 70(3), pages 667-695.
    12. Ruys, P.H.M. & van den Brink, J.R. & Semenov, R., 1999. "Values and Governance Systems," Discussion Paper 1999-66, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
    13. Saikat Datta, 1996. "On Control Losses In Hierarchies," Rationality and Society, , vol. 8(4), pages 387-412, November.
    14. Christoff Loch, 1995. "Collaboration, Motivation, and the Size of Organizations," Working Papers _005, Xerox Research Park.
    15. Antoine Faure-Grimaud & Jean-Jacques Laffont & David Martimort, 1998. "A Theory of Supervision with Endogenous Transaction Costs," STICERD - Theoretical Economics Paper Series 356, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
    16. Mehmet Ali Köseoglu & John A. Parnell & Melissa Yan Yee Yick, 2021. "Identifying influential studies and maturity level in intellectual structure of fields: evidence from strategic management," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(2), pages 1271-1309, February.
    17. van den Brink, J.R. & Gilles, R.P., 2005. "Explicit and Latent Authority in Hierarchical Organizations," Other publications TiSEM b4225229-4c7a-433f-8340-a, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    18. Prat, Andrea, 1997. "Hierarchies of Processors with Endogenous Capacity," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 77(1), pages 214-222, November.
    19. Vasin, A. & Nikolaev, P. & Urazov, A., 2011. "Mechanisms for Corruption Suppression," Journal of the New Economic Association, New Economic Association, issue 10, pages 10-30.
    20. Holmstrom, Bengt R. & Tirole, Jean, 1989. "The theory of the firm," Handbook of Industrial Organization, in: R. Schmalensee & R. Willig (ed.), Handbook of Industrial Organization, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 2, pages 61-133, Elsevier.
    21. John Geanakoplos & Paul R. Milgrom, 1988. "A Theory of Hierarchies Based on Limited Managerial Attention," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 775R, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
    22. Gradstein, Mark, 1998. "Optimal contest design: volume and timing of rent seeking in contests," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 14(4), pages 575-585, November.
    23. van den Brink, J.R. & Ruys, P.H.M., 2005. "Technological Change, Wages and Firm Size," Discussion Paper 2005-022, Tilburg University, Tilburg Law and Economic Center.
    24. Swank, Otto & Visser, Bauke, 2008. "The consequences of endogenizing information for the performance of a sequential decision procedure," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 65(3-4), pages 667-681, March.
    25. Timothy Van Zandt, 1994. "Hierarchical Computation of the Resource Allocation Problem," Macroeconomics 9412001, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    26. Massimo G. Colombo & Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, 2013. "The organizational design of high- tech start- ups: state of the art and directions for future research," Chapters, in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, chapter 21, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    27. René van den Brink & Robert P. Gilles, 2003. "Explicit and Latent Authority in Hierarchical Organizations," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 03-102/1, Tinbergen Institute.
    28. Thomas Hutzschenreuter & Fabian Guenther, 2009. "Complexity as a constraint on firm expansion within and across industries," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(6), pages 373-392.
    29. Timothy Van Zandt & Roy Radner, 1998. "Real-Time Decentralized Information Processing and Returns to Scale," Discussion Papers 1233, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science.
    30. Philippe Jehiel, 1999. "Information Aggregation and Communication in Organizations," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 45(5), pages 659-669, May.
    31. Callander, Steven & Plott, Charles R., 2005. "Principles of network development and evolution: an experimental study," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(8), pages 1469-1495, August.
    32. Pedro Cisneros-Velarde & Francesco Bullo, 2021. "A network formation game for the emergence of hierarchies," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(8), pages 1-26, August.
    33. Pérez, Jessica Helen & Iranzo Sancho, Susana, 2012. "Determinants of Decentralization within the Firm: Some Empirical Evidence from Spanish Small and Medium- Sized Enterprise," Working Papers 2072/211755, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics.
    34. Van Zandt, Timothy, 2003. "Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation with Quadratic Costs," CEPR Discussion Papers 4022, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    35. James D Adams & Adam B Jaffe, 1994. "The Span of the Effect of R&D in the Firm and Industry," Working Papers 94-7, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    36. René van den Brink, 2006. "On Hierarchies and Communication," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 06-056/1, Tinbergen Institute.
    37. Jürgen Mihm & Christoph H. Loch & Dennis Wilkinson & Bernardo A. Huberman, 2010. "Hierarchical Structure and Search in Complex Organizations," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 56(5), pages 831-848, May.
    38. René Brink, 2008. "Vertical wage differences in hierarchically structured firms," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 30(2), pages 225-243, February.
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    43. Markus Christen & William Boulding & Richard Staelin, 2009. "Optimal Market Intelligence Strategy When Management Attention Is Scarce," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 55(4), pages 526-538, April.
    44. van den Brink, J.R. & Ruys, P.H.M., 2005. "Technological Change, Wages and Firm Size," Other publications TiSEM 98a153c9-4986-4d03-b695-c, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    45. Marschak, Thomas, 2006. "Organization Structure," MPRA Paper 81518, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    46. Eyal Winter, 2001. "Scapegoats and Optimal Allocation of Responsibility," Discussion Paper Series dp266, The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

  13. Keren, Michael, 1982. "The ministry, plan changes, and the ratchet in planning," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 6(4), pages 327-342, December.

    Cited by:

    1. David Cooper & John Kagel & Qing Liang Gu & Wei Lo, 1999. "Gaming against managers in incentive systems: Experimental results with chinese students and chinese managers," Artefactual Field Experiments 00038, The Field Experiments Website.
    2. Brixiova, Zuzana & Bulir, Ales, 2003. "Output performance under central planning: a model of poor incentives," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 27-39, March.
    3. Mr. Aleš Bulíř & Ms. Zuzana Brixiova, 2001. "Growth Slowdown in Bureaucratic Economic Systems: An Issue Revisited," IMF Working Papers 2001/006, International Monetary Fund.

  14. Michael Keren & David Levhari, 1979. "The Optimum Span of Control in a Pure Hierarchy," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 25(11), pages 1162-1172, November.

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    1. Colombo, Massimo G. & Delmastro, Marco, 1999. "Some stylized facts on organization and its evolution," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 255-274, November.
    2. Weiying Zhang, 1998. "A Principal-agent Theory of the Public Economy and Its Applications to China," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 31(2), pages 231-251, May.
    3. Ruys, P.H.M. & van den Brink, J.R. & Semenov, R., 1999. "Values and Governance Systems," Other publications TiSEM 7b3f7549-e97f-4e5b-92e6-2, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    4. Phillip J. Lederer & Xiaobo Zheng, 2021. "Can information economics explain the organization of productive facilities?," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(3), pages 525-553, August.
    5. Andrea Patacconi, 2009. "Coordination and delay in hierarchies," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 40(1), pages 190-208, March.
    6. Ira N. Gang & Gil S. Epstein, 2002. "Rent Seeking in Hierarchical Firms," Departmental Working Papers 200218, Rutgers University, Department of Economics.
    7. René Brink & Pieter Ruys, 2008. "Technology driven organizational structure of the firm," Annals of Finance, Springer, vol. 4(4), pages 481-503, October.
    8. Rao, T.V.S. Ramamohan, 2011. "CES as an Organizational Production Function," Indian Economic Review, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, vol. 46(1), pages 69-81.
    9. Luis Otávio Facanha & Marcelo Resende, 2007. "Hierarchical Structure in Brazilian Industrial Firms: An Econometric Study," CESifo Working Paper Series 1985, CESifo.
    10. Seejeen Park, 2019. "Dusk for the pyramid-shaped bureaucracy: examining the shape of the U.S. federal bureaucracy in the twenty first century," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 1565-1585, May.
    11. Paola Rovelli & Vincenzo Butticè, 2020. "On the organizational design of entrepreneurial ventures: the configurations of the entrepreneurial team," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 47(2), pages 243-269, June.
    12. Dimitri Vayanos, 2003. "The Decentralization of Information Processing in the Presence of Interactions," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 70(3), pages 667-695.
    13. Ruys, P.H.M. & van den Brink, J.R. & Semenov, R., 1999. "Values and Governance Systems," Discussion Paper 1999-66, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
    14. Oliver Hart & John Moore, 2005. "On the Design of Hierarchies: Coordination versus Specialization," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 113(4), pages 675-702, August.
    15. van den Brink, J.R. & Gilles, R.P., 2005. "Explicit and Latent Authority in Hierarchical Organizations," Other publications TiSEM b4225229-4c7a-433f-8340-a, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    16. John W. Boudreau, 2004. "50th Anniversary Article: Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Performance, and Design in Management Science," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 50(11), pages 1463-1476, November.
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    19. Meagher, Kieron J., 2003. "Generalizing incentives and loss of control in an optimal hierarchy: the role of information technology," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 78(2), pages 273-280, February.
    20. Andrea Patacconi, 2005. "Optimal Coordination in Hierarchies," Economics Series Working Papers 238, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    21. van den Brink, J.R. & Ruys, P.H.M., 2005. "Technological Change, Wages and Firm Size," Discussion Paper 2005-022, Tilburg University, Tilburg Law and Economic Center.
    22. Cheng Chen, 2015. "Management Quality, Firm Organization and International Trade," 2015 Meeting Papers 53, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    25. Emma Hubert, 2020. "Continuous-time incentives in hierarchies," Papers 2007.10758, arXiv.org.
    26. Massimo G. Colombo & Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, 2013. "The organizational design of high- tech start- ups: state of the art and directions for future research," Chapters, in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, chapter 21, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    27. René van den Brink & Robert P. Gilles, 2003. "Explicit and Latent Authority in Hierarchical Organizations," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 03-102/1, Tinbergen Institute.
    28. Philippe Jehiel, 1999. "Information Aggregation and Communication in Organizations," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 45(5), pages 659-669, May.
    29. Grimpe, Christoph & Murmann, Martin & Sofka, Wolfgang, 2017. "The organizational design of high-tech startups and product innovation," ZEW Discussion Papers 17-074, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    30. Pérez, Jessica Helen & Iranzo Sancho, Susana, 2012. "Determinants of Decentralization within the Firm: Some Empirical Evidence from Spanish Small and Medium- Sized Enterprise," Working Papers 2072/211755, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics.
    31. Jan de Kok & Frank den Butter & Edwin van Gameren, 2001. "The Effects of transaction costs and human capital on firm size: a simulation model approach," Scales Research Reports H200011, EIM Business and Policy Research.
    32. Cho, Myeonghwan, 2010. "Efficient structure of organization with heterogeneous workers," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 46(6), pages 1125-1139, November.
    33. Tobias Hiller, 2021. "Hierarchy and the size of a firm," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 68(3), pages 389-404, September.
    34. Butter, Frank A.G. den & Gameren, Edwin van & Kok, Jan M.P. de, 2001. "The effects of transaction costs and human capital on firm size : a simulation model approach," Serie Research Memoranda 0010, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
    35. René van den Brink, 2006. "On Hierarchies and Communication," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 06-056/1, Tinbergen Institute.
    36. Rovelli, Paola, 2020. ""I am stuck in meetings": Understanding the relation of CEO time management with TMT size and gender diversity," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 777-790.
    37. René Brink, 2008. "Vertical wage differences in hierarchically structured firms," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 30(2), pages 225-243, February.
    38. Frédéric Loss & Antoine Renucci, 2021. "Promotions, managerial project choice, and implementation effort," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(4), pages 799-819, November.
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    40. Delmastro, Marco, 2002. "The determinants of the management hierarchy: evidence from Italian plants," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 119-137, January.
    41. Olav Sorenson, 2022. "Flat firms, complementary choices, employee effort, and the pyramid principle," Journal of Organization Design, Springer;Organizational Design Community, vol. 11(1), pages 11-14, March.
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  15. Michael Keren, 1973. "The new economic system in the GDR: An obituary," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 554-587.

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  16. Michael Keren, 1972. "On the Tautness of Plans," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 39(4), pages 469-486.

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    1. Yves Simon & Henri Tezenas du Montcel, 1977. "Théorie de la firme et réforme de l'entreprise," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 28(3), pages 321-351.
    2. Neary, Hugh M., 2001. "Dynamic consistency in incentive planning with a material input," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 44(3), pages 315-332, March.

  17. Keren, Michael, 1972. "Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: Comment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 62(1), pages 149-149, March.

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    1. Alexis Jacquemin, 1979. "Le phénomène de désindustrialisation et la Communauté Européenne," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 30(6), pages 985-999.

Chapters

  1. Michael Keren & Gur Ofer, 2007. "Are Transition Economies Normal Developing Countries? The Burden of the Socialist Past," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Saul Estrin & Grzegorz W. Kolodko & Milica Uvalic (ed.), Transition and Beyond, chapter 3, pages 58-85, Palgrave Macmillan.

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    1. Csaba, László, 2008. "Módszertan és relevancia a közgazdaságtanban. A mai közgazdaságtan és a társtudományok [Methodology and relevancy in economics. Today s economics and associated sciences]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(4), pages 285-307.
    2. Csaba, László, 2009. "A szovjetológiától az új intézményi közgazdaságtanig - töprengések két évtized távlatából [From Sovietology to the new institutional economics - meditations from a distance of two decades]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(9), pages 749-768.
    3. Anna Abalkina & Alexander Libman, 2020. "The real costs of plagiarism: Russian governors, plagiarized PhD theses, and infrastructure in Russian regions," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 125(3), pages 2793-2820, December.

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