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managed equity mutual funds. We document that the responses of investors, fund managers, and investment management companies …
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We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … the 25th to the 75th percentile of management practices is associated with a 17.4% reduction in energy intensity. Better …
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This paper investigates how conservative managers make corporate decisions. Motivated by psychology research, we use handwritten signatures (i.e., emotionally restraint disclosure styles) as a proxy for CEO conservatism. We find that firms with conservative CEOs engage more with safer...
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We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …
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We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …
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Drawing on Baumol’s concepts of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship and relevant amendments, this book develops a conceptual framework which allows operationalising the concepts for empirical assessment. Using data from a longitudinal survey, the author further makes one...
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