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We provide evidence on the match between firms, managers and incentives using a new survey designed for this purpose … implicit incentives they face and on the firms they work for. We model a market for managerial talent where both firms and … managers are heterogeneous. Following the sources of heterogeneity observed in the data, we assume that firms differ by …
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The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...
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performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We … degree of control reduces the number of applications and that introducing performance incentives reduces this even further …
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We explore the consequence for taxation and regulation of bonus pay when investors are protected by taxpayers from downside risk. The paper develops a model where workers in financial sector firms make decisions about effort and risk-taking which are influenced by the structure of bonus pay....
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closed form). By modeling the noise before the action in each period, we force the contract to provide sufficient incentives …
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first show that simple fee-for-service reimbursement schemes do not provide proper incentives. If insurers use, however, fee …
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Based on a rich personnel data set of a large university we find strong evidence for the existence of an internal labor market. First, the lowest academic rank is a strong port of entry and the highest rank is a port of exit. Second, wages do not follow external wage developments, since they...
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same firm. However, family managers face weaker incentives than professional managers as seen in the lower sensitivity of …Analyzing data from a unique survey of managers of Chinese private firms, we investigate how family ties with firm … heads affect managerial compensation and job assignment. We find that family managers earn higher salaries and receive more …
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Contracts in a dynamic model must address a number of issues absent from static frameworks. Shocks to firm value may weaken the incentive effects of securities (e.g. cause options to fall out of the money), and the impact of some CEO actions may not be felt until far in the future. We derive the...
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A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of …
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