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Market-Based Compensation, Price Informativeness and Short-Term Trading
Calcagno, Riccardo - 2007
This paper shows that there is a natural trade-off when designing market-based executive compensation. The benefit of market-based pay is that the stock price aggregates speculators' dispersed information and therefore takes a picture of managerial performance before the long-term value of a...
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Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance : Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany
Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian - 2021
Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how … expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost … Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in stock prices, dividends, and returns on assets. Aggregate market value …
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Social Preferences : Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences
Fehr, Ernst; Charness, Gary - 2023
We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences for important economic and political behaviors. We provide, in particular, an overview of the empirically...
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Uniform and nonuniform staggering of wage contracts
Danziger, Leif - 2010
This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and long contracts as well as long contracts concluded in different periods are strategic...
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A treatment effect method for merger analysis with an application to parking prices in Paris
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2010
Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment group and in a control group. We propose a systematic method to construct the groups, which applies to any industry with spatial competition. The method is consistent with the...
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Managerial payoff and gift exchange in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen G. - 2012
We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. The results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage gift and the agent's ability to repay the gift. We collect information on...
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Macroeconomic Implications of Downward Wage Rigidities
Abbritti, Mirko - 2011
Growth of wages, unemployment, employment and vacancies exhibit strong asymmetries between expansionary and contractionary phases. In this paper we analyze to what degree downward wage rigidities in the bargaining process affect other variables of the economy. We introduce asymmetric wage...
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Credit Risk Transfers and the Macroeconomy
Faia, Ester - 2010
The recent financial crisis has highlighted the limits of the "originate to distribute" model of banking, but its nexus with the macroeconomy and monetary policy remains unexplored. I build a DSGE model with banks (along the lines of Holmström and Tirole [28] and Parlour and Plantin [39]) and...
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Macroeconomic Implications of Time-Varying Risk Premia
Gourio, Francois - 2012
A large empirical literature suggests that risk premia on stocks or corporate bonds are large and countercyclical. This paper studies a simple real business cycle model with a small, exogenously time-varying risk of disaster, and shows that it can replicate several important facts documented in...
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Liquidity Constraints, Risk Premia, and the Macroeconomic Effects of Liquidity Shocks
Jaccard, Ivan - 2013
We study the transmission of liquidity shocks in a dynamic general equilibrium model where firms and households are subject to liquidity risk. The provision of liquidity services is undertaken by financial intermediaries that allocate the stock of liquid asset between the different sectors of...
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