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We analyze the effects of the observed increased share of delegated capital for trading strategies and equilibrium prices by introducing delegation into a standard Lucas exchange economy. In equilibrium, some investors trade on their own account, but others decide to delegate trading to...
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We present a dynamic agency model of investment, borrowing and payout decisions by a mature corporation operating in … agency models and from dynamic models based on financing frictions. …
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We study economies of scale in banking by viewing banks as combinations of financial and human capital that create rents which accrue to investors and bankers. Applying this approach to annual data of US bank holding companies since 1990, we find much stronger evidence of economies of scale in...
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We study managerial incentive provision under moral hazard in a firm subject to stochastic growth opportunities. In our model, managers are dismissed after poor performance, but also when an alternative manager is more capable of growing the firm. The optimal contract may involve managerial...
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Using an agency model, we show how delegation, by generating additional private information, improves dynamic …
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This paper develops an agency model in which firms can influence their own incentives to provide a non …
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Large public bureaucracies are commonly regarded as less efficient than modern private corporations. This paper explores how the degree of discretionary power might account for this difference in efficiency. Indeed, increasing the discretionary power of the intermediate layers of an organization...
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supervision. Central bank communication will constitute a central policy tool for that purpose. The paper asks how such … communication will affect financial markets, exploiting the fact that many central banks have had some financial stability role in … times, but can have a substantially larger effect during periods of financial stress. Moreover, central bank communication …
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in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …
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communication between the sender and the receiver in a way consistent with the theoretical predictions. Deviations from the …
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