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An effective performance-based compensation system must increase the probability of high performance corporate outcomes in order to justify the incremental expense relative to a straight salary system. A positive relation between current performance and current compensation indicates that the...
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We design a field experiment to study how the allocation of authority between frontline procurement officers and their monitors affects performance both directly and through the response to incentives. In collaboration with the government of Punjab, Pakistan, we shift authority from monitors to...
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: reducing the opportunity for managers to transfer value to equityholders from creditors via strategic default, and reducing the …
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This paper extends the static analysis of oligopoly structure into an infinite-horizon setting with sunk costs and …
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than its static analog. We then test the theory using monthly production targets of the Big Three U.S. auto manufacturers …
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There has been a significant interest on a theoretical level in the application of supergames to oligopoly behavior …
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This paper analyzes the determination of the optimal tariff under the assumption of Consistent Conjectural Variations (CCV). A general characterization of the CCV equilibrium is given. We show that (i) there are, in general, a multiplicity of such equilibria, and (ii) under certain restrictions,...
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Using an aggregative games approach, we analyze horizontal mergers in a model of multiproduct-firm price competition with nested CES or nested logit demands. We show that the Herfindahl index provides an adequate measure of the welfare distortions introduced by market power, and that the induced...
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market power. Multiple precision medicine market situations now resemble game theory constructs such as the prisoners …
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managers. Employment relations can be either tough (where workers are monitored intensively and obtain few rents, and managers … workplace favor exchange). Both workers and managers also exert effort in providing community benefits. The threat of losing … access to community benefits can motivate managers to keep employment soft; conversely, the threat of losing future …
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