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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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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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credit markets. Due to the financial imperfections, high-productivity firms - which are run by entrepreneurs - must be …
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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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to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …
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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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