The purpose of the study was to assess effectiveness remote work and determining factors its development. Based on survey for December 2020 - January 2021, with 528 employees insurance companies in Georgia, features have been determined. influencing were substantiated by Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Structural modeling confirmed qualitative nature influence intensity level effectiveness,...

This paper is concerned with the estimation of frontier production function to measure the technical efficiency for Iranian textile companies during 1995. The objective of this estimation is to investigate if there are any differences in the technical efficiency between the private and public firms as well as the relationship between technical efficiency and size of textile companies in Iran. A...

My research employs theoretical modeling and quantitative analysis to study the interaction between market frictions and risks in the areas of Banking and Asset Pricing. Specifically, I examine how frictions in contracting and search affect systemic risk and asset prices. Sparked by the recent crisis, linkages among financial firms are identified as a major source of systemic risk. In chapter o...

If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long–term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In our experiment long– term employment can result either from offering long–term contracts or from repeatedly and mutually opting for rematching. Treatments differ in how regulations restrict the employer’s flexibility in adapting the employment contr...

When only group performance is observable, incentives depend on the distribution of payments between group members. This distribution differs between firms. In this paper, we analyze whether the coexistence of various group performance-based payment schemes on the labor market can be related to agents’ heterogeneity. We test by a laboratory experiment whether agents self-select between a compet...

This paper investigates the consequences of imperfect and uneven factor market development for farm efficiency in rural China. In particular, we estimate the extent to which an inverse relationship in farm productivity can be attributed to the administrative (instead of market) allocation of land, and the extent of unevenly developed non-agricultural opportunities. Using a recently collected ho...