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The Dark Side of Internal Capital Markets : Divisional Rent-Seeking and Inefficient Investment
Scharfstein, David S. - 1997
We develop a model that shows how rent-seeking behavior on the part of division managers can subvert the workings of an internal capital market. In an effort to stop rent-seeking, corporate headquarters will be effectively forced into paying bribes to some division managers. And because...
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Worker Representatives
Budde, Julian; Dohmen, Thomas; Jäger, Simon; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635703
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Firm-Level Investment in France and the United States : An Exploration of What We Have Learned in Twenty Years
Mairesse, Jacques - 1999
changes in modelling strategy and econometric methodology, over the past twenty years, on estimation of firm-level investment … correction, traditional between- and within-firm estimation versus GMM estimation, the investment behavior of French firms versus … significant improvement in the specification, estimation and interpretation of firm investment equations; we also fin some real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471345
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Monetary-Based Asset Pricing : A Mixed-Frequency Structural Approach
Bianchi, Francesco; Ludvigson, Sydney C.; Ma, Sai - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We integrate a high-frequency monetary event study into a mixed-frequency macro-finance model and structural estimation …. The model and estimation allow for jumps at Fed announcements in investor beliefs, providing granular detail on why … financial market risk. However, the structural estimation also finds that much of the causal impact of monetary policy on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210100
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Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behavior : Evidence from China's VAT Reform
Chen, Zhao - 2019
A universal fact of firm-level data is that investment is lumpy: firms either replace a considerable fraction of their existing capital (spike) or do not invest at all (inaction). This paper incorporates the lumpy nature of investment into the study of how tax policy affects investment behavior....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480302
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Rent-sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data
Card, David - 2010
When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462464
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Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment
Chari, Anusha - 2006
We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466482
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CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment
Malmendier, Ulrike - 2004
We argue that managerial overconfidence can account for corporate investment distortions. Overconfident managers overestimate the returns to their investment projects and view external funds as unduly costly. Thus, they overinvest when they have abundant internal funds, but curtail investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467882
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The Cost of Diversity : The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment
Rajan, Raghuram - 1998
In a simple model of capital budgeting in a diversified firm where headquarters has limited power, we show that funds are allocated towards the most inefficient divisions. The distortion is greater the more diverse are the investment opportunities of the firm's divisions. We test these...
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State Capitalism vs. Private Enterprise
Ljungqvist, Alexander - 2015
We study the efficiency of capital allocations at state-controlled and privately owned business groups in China. Using highly granular data on within-group capital transfers, we document stark differences: while private groups allocate more capital to units with better investment opportunities,...
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