CEF.UP – MaR Seminar/Webinar

Tuesday – June 4^th , 2024 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Room 631 | Online

“Peer pressure and manager pressure in organisations”

Tom Kirchmaier – LSE – London School of Economics and Political Science (England, United Kingdom)

Abstract:

“We study the interaction between horizontal (peer) and vertical (manager) social factors in workers’ motivation. In our setting, individuals work using open-plan desks. Using a natural experiment, we identify a sharp increase in workers’ productivity following the occupation of adjacent desks. We link this peer pressure effect to two key aspects of the worker-manager relation. First, we find stronger peer pressure when managers monitor workers less. Second, we find stronger peer pressure among workers performance-evaluated by the same manager. In a set of counterfactual exercises, we illustrate how organisations could take advantage of these interdependencies to increase worker productivity. ”

CEF.UP – WiP Seminar/Webinar

Friday – June 7^th, 2024 at 13:00h (1 pm) | Room 305 | Online

Fiscal Policy Dispersion in the Euro Area – a new quantitative index

Daniel Loureiro – FEP – School of Economics and Management – University of Porto and Cef.Up

Abstract:

“We developed a new Fiscal Dispersion Index to assess fiscal policy coordination in the Euro Area and complement the existent literature. We found greater fiscal policy dispersion around the years of economic crisis, signaling a deterioration of coordination. Besides, we highlighted Portugal as one the most problematic countries, continuously deviating from the average policies. However, the direction of the Portuguese deviation is not constant over time. It shifted from looser policies between 2000 and 2007 to tighter policies from 2016 to 2021. Moreover, we also found that Germany and Netherlands pursued tighter policies than the average, particularly when facing common shocks. Thus, we recommend that additional measures should be approved to improve coordination during the more challenging times, preventing insufficient expansionary policies. Failing to do so will likely hamper the credibility of the European framework and institutions.”

CEF.UP – MaR Seminar/Webinar

Monday – June 17^th , 2024 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Room 631 | Online

“How to publish Systematic Literature Review papers in top journals”

Michael Christofi – School of Economics and Management – Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus)