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We analyze the interaction between financial institutions' internal compensation policy, the quality of loans, and … incentives more commensurate with the longer-term risk of their transactions. While mandatory deferred compensation can improve … compensation can complement a policy that requires financial institutions to retain a minimum exposure to their originated loans …
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managers. This allows firms to reduce performance-based compensation and can rationalize loss-making acquisitions. At the same …
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The compensation of a professor who is awarded an internal Canada Research Chair (CRC) increases by 6.3 percent on … retaining top talents, we infer that the compensation cost of doing so is modest. In addition, only a small fraction of the CRC … grants have been passed through to professors as compensation increases. This is despite the fact that universities report …
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The paper reviews the likely economic effects of the Regional Economic Partnership Agreements (REPAs) proposed by the EU to the ACP countries to succeed to the Lomé IV agreements. We argue that, in spite of some likely positive effects because of reciprocity and because of the North-South...
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results arise because of poor court oversight and the compensation scheme awarded to the court appointed trustee managing the …
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We examine the interdependency between loan officer compensation contracts and commercial bank internal reporting … in our set-up. We examine the likely effect of the new Basel Accord upon IRS choice, loan officer compensation, and bank …
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Paper looks at why compensation is not preferred to retaliation and then examines five economic features of the temporary …
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We examine a model in which two politicians compete for office and for wages. Their remunerations are either set by the public or are offered competitively by the candidates during campaigns. Our main finding shows that competitive wage offers by candidates lead to lower social welfare than...
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expect if food consumption delivers not only utils, but also nutrients affecting future productivity. The efficiency … conditions which characterize the within-household allocation of food under the unitary model are violated, as consumption …Using data on individual consumption from farm households in the Philippines, we construct a direct test of risk …
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Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a national midday meal program on anthropometric z-scores...
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