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Trust and accountability in times of crisis 危机时刻的信任和问责

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12556

Monica Martinez-Bravo, Carlos Sanz

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Staff engagement, co-workers' complementarity and employee retention: evidence from English NHS hospitals 员工敬业度，同事互补性和员工留任：来自英国NHS医院的证据

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12554

Giuseppe Moscelli, Melisa Sayli, Marco Mello, Alberto Vesperoni

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Export policy cooperation in a pandemic: the good, the bad and the hopeful 大流行病中的出口政策合作：好的、坏的和有希望的

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12552

Gerda Dewit, Dermot Leahy

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Employer cooperation, productivity and wages: new evidence from inter-firm formal network agreements 雇主合作、生产率和工资：来自企业间正式网络协议的新证据

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12553

Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello, Davide Vannoni

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Monetary policy communication shocks and the macroeconomy 货币政策沟通冲击与宏观经济

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12550

Robert Goodhead, Benedikt Kolb

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Why gender norms matter 为什么性别规范很重要

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12551

Ryo Sakamoto, Miki Kohara

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The determinants of trust: findings from large, representative samples in six OECD countries 信任的决定因素：从六个经合组织国家的大型代表性样本中得出的结论

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12549

Roxanne Kovacs, Maurice Dunaiski, Matteo M. Galizzi, Gianluca Grimalda, Rafael Hortala-Vallve, Fabrice Murtin, Louis Putterman

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Hours of work and the long-run effects of in-work transfers 工时和在职转移的长期影响

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12548

David Goll, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters

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Export competition with China and firms' coping strategies 与中国的出口竞争和企业的应对策略

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12542

Katariina Nilsson Hakkala, Yao Pan

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Wage–price spirals: what is the historical evidence? 工资-价格螺旋：历史证据是什么？

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12543

Jorge Alvarez, John Christopher Bluedorn, Niels-Jakob Hansen, Youyou Huang, Evgenia Pugacheva, Alexandre Sollaci

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