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credit markets. Due to the financial imperfections, high-productivity firms - which are run by entrepreneurs - must be … financed out of internal savings. If these savings are sufficiently large, the high-productivity sector outgrows the low …. The downsizing of the financially integrated sector forces a growing share of domestic savings to be invested in foreign …
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We construct a model where an entrepreneur could either innovate for entry or for sale. It is shown that increased product competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale relative to entry. Increased competition reduces entrants' and acquirers' profits in a...
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In the course of ordinary business, commercial banks frequently encounter entrepreneurs seeking loans for the purpose … of financing new or continuing projects. These entrepreneurs are frequently unrealistic, their perception having been … relationship between banks and possible optimistic entrepreneurs. We examine this capital market from the stand-point of economic …
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to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …
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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 …
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