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"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
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The key purpose of corporate finance is to provide methods to compute the value of projects. The baseline textbook recommendation is to use the Present Value (PV) formula of expected cash flows, with a discount rate based on the CAPM. In this paper, we ask what is, empirically, the best...
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Using a novel dataset of U.S. buyout and VC investments, we study the informativeness of fund managers' interim valuation reports about portfolio companies on final outcomes. We find that when investors assess the performance of individual portfolio companies, they can do better than just...
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diverse litigation trajectories to estimate the net present value of a claim. The model permits the decision-maker to …
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Jobs increasingly require good decision-making. Workers are valued not only for how much they can do, but also for … conditional on IQ, numeracy, and education, and the return to allocative skill is greater in decision-intensive occupations …
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We develop interpretable, quantitative indices of the objective and subjective complexity of lottery choice problems that can be computed for any standard dataset. These indices capture the predicted error rate in identifying the lottery with the highest expected value, where the predictions are...
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Das traditionelle Ideal für die Steuerung von Unternehmen ist die rationale Ordnung. Die Führung eines Unternehmens soll "wie aus einem Guß" sein, d. h. alle Aktivitäten der Unternehmensmitglieder sollen planmäßig gegliedert und stimmig verknüpft, auf ein Ziel hin gesteuert und jederzeit...
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Laboratory experiments find a robust relationship between decision times and perceived values of alternatives. This … paper investigates how these findings translate to experts' decision making and information acquisition in the field. In a … be chosen later than earlier; (ii) decision time is higher when the likelihood of choosing each alternative is closer to …
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Many, if not most, personalistic dictatorships end up with a disastrous decision such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet …. Even if the decision is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot …-informed subordinates have no chance to prevent the decision from being implemented. We offer a dynamic model of non-democratic politics, in …
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patient health and health care spending. This paper seeks to organize the recent economics literature on physician decision … populations, and incentives. Economic considerations that affect the quality of decision making include training, experience, peer … effects, financial incentives and time constraints. We also consider interventions aimed at improving decision making …
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