Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen wie der internationale Wettbewerb und der demografische Wandel lassen den "War for Talent" wieder aufleben. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird es zunehmend wichtiger für Unternehmen, ihren internen Führungsnachwuchs an sich zu binden. Die Qualität dieser...

We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce leader heterogeneity in the selectorate theory of Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003) and derive the hypothesis that in the presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence...

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...