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I develop a model of group decision-making, in which a committee generates proposals and holds open discussions, but the ultimate decision is either taken by a leader (decision by authority) or by majority vote. Optimal communication processes are studied that combine both cheap talk statements...
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together the following results: merging parties' profits fall but consumer surplus is unchanged, Stackelberg leadership raises …
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leadership naturally arise as a response to organizational trade-offs between coordination and adaptation. At the optimum, all … the expense of all others. Our results shed light on the importance of leadership, strategy and “core competences,” as …
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instrument for addressing the agency problem between managers and shareholders but also as part of the agency problem itself … managers. As a result, managers wield substantial influence over their own pay arrangements, and they have an interest in … reducing the saliency of the amount of their pay and the extent to which that pay is de-coupled from managers’ performance. We …
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We provide evidence on the match between firms, managers and incentives using a new survey designed for this purpose … managers are heterogeneous. Following the sources of heterogeneity observed in the data, we assume that firms differ by … than non-family firms. Managers differ in their degree of risk aversion and talent. The entry of firms and managers, the …
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We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
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based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even …
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This Paper empirically investigates the decisions of US publicly traded firms on where to incorporate. We study the features of states that make them attractive to incorporating firms and the characteristics of firms that determine whether they incorporate in or out of their state of location....
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We survey the empirical literature analysing the process of enterprise restructuring in transition economies. The survey provides new insights into the relative effectiveness of different reform policies, and into how this effectiveness varies across regions. We study the effects of...
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constraints that act on these processes, leave managers with considerable power to shape their own pay arrangements. Examining the …
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