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This paper distinguishes between governance structure and contractual form. The basic premise is that researchers often confuse these two concepts when they develop or empirically test models within the transaction cost framework. In the paper I utilize a simple principal- agent model to show...
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understanding of two fundamental problems that arise when agency relationships are established between a worker and firm. The first … is that agency relationships often require the creation of specific property rights in order for firm owners to realize … productive efficiencies of scale or scope from agency. The second is that the economic characteristics of the agency relationship …
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can otherwise be explained by, the agency relationship between securities holders and managers. We argue that the value of … diversification in an agency relationship derives not from its effects on risk, but rather from its effects on the principal …
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Private equity funds of funds (FOFs) have become big business. Today, FOFs form 14% of new money raised. I test six explanations for the rise of FOFs. First, I find that FOFs do not generally deliver superior returns. They do, however, do well enough for the limited partners (LPs) that hire...
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the interaction of interests between companies and environment protection agency, which takes into account the nature …
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theoretical foundation, elements resumed by a set of critical postulates and a special definition of state as the dominant agency …
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We develop the Probability Scaling Method, which rescales short-window announcement period returns; and the Intervention Method, which uses returns associated with intervening events, to estimate value improvements from tender offers. These methods address biases in conventional techniques,...
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: hierarchy is justified for coordination of continuous change, rather than for the direction of static production. Hierarchy is …
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addition to ex-post collusion following the monitoring outcome. Extending a well-known model of hierarchy, we study the …
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overall likelihood of bribing tends to a maximum determined by the control mechanisms. The factors affecting the expectation … aimed at continuously perfecting the regulations and the control mechanisms. As the latter are expensive, it is argued that … the overall efficiency of the system, including but beyond control of corruption. …
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