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competition in market economies. We find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the … from market power in product markets are utilised to undertake innovation. There is also some less clear-cut evidence that …
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The recent literature has shown that subjective welfare depends on relative income. Attempts to test this relationship in poor countries have yielded conflicting results, suggesting that the relationship is not universal or only applies above a certain income level. We revisit the issue using...
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capital that is delegated is low, all funds follow the same strategy. However, when the equilibrium share of delegated capital …
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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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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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We present a dynamic agency model of investment, borrowing and payout decisions by a mature corporation operating in … perfect financial markets. Risk-averse managers implement an inter-temporal strategy that maximizes their lifetime utility of … agency models and from dynamic models based on financing frictions. …
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position through the “valuation channel” of external adjustment, namely capital gains and losses on the country’s external … assets and liabilities. We examine this valuation channel theoretically in a dynamic equilibrium portfolio model with … quantities in the definition of net foreign assets, we can characterize the first-order dynamics of both valuation effects and …
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In this Paper we study the changes in corporate valuation induced by the formation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU …
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