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Performance Incentives, Performance Pressure and Executive Turnover

Subramanian, Narayanan; Chakraborty, Atreya; Sheikh, Shahbaz - EconWPA - 2002

We examine the relationship between the optimal incentive contract and the firm’s decision to fire a manager for poor performance. We first derive some theoretical results using a simple principal-agent model, and then examine the empirical evidence on the incidence of forced turnover among...

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Firm Performance and Executive Compensation in the Savings and Loan Industry

Hermalin, Benjamin E.; Wallace, Nancy E. - EconWPA - 1997

Previous empirical analyses of the relationship between executive compensation and firm performance are often interpreted as suggesting that this relationship is weak. Although an absolute term like "weak" is ambiguous in this context, relative terms, such as "stronger," are meaningful. We argue...

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Incentives and spillovers in R&D activities: an agency-theoretic analysis of industry-university relations

Lacetera, Nicola - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, I study industry-university relations in a principal- agent framework. Following the existing literature, these relations are interpreted in two ways: (1) as occurring through spillovers of knowledge among different groups of researchers, working for different institutional...

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Recognizing Investment Opportunities at the Onset of Recoveries

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Investment decision-making is modeled by means of a Kohonen neural net, where neurons represent firms. This is done in …

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Aggregate investment dynamics when firms face fixed investment cost and capital market imperfections

Bayer, Christian - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes a model of investment with fixed investment costs and capital market imperfections. In this model … finance influences the level of capital firms hold, as well as the frequency at which they invest. In consequence investment …, when the short-run investment function is estimated, liquidity has a significant impact, which is also strongest for strong …

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The Non-Neutrality of Debt in Investment Timing: A New NPV Rule

Sabarwal, Tarun - EconWPA - 2004

Limited liability debt financing of irreversible investments can affect investment timing through an entrepreneur … entrepreneur's unique investment opportunity, and it is shown in a standard model of irreversible investment that includes the … risks, and lowers the investment threshold. Compensating the lender for expected default losses reduces project …

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

investment problems have been formulated. …

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How Do Economic Freedom and Investment Affect Economic Growth?

CHHENG, KIMLONG - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies whether and how capital investment and economic freedom jointly endogenize economic growth. The … the crucial role of both domestic and foreign capital investment and economic freedom for rapid growth. Countries that … improve economic freedom and that bolster capital investment tend to experience faster growth. The domestic investment rate …

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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Benchmarking, Productivity and Investment Needs, paper presented at Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) Conference, Durban, 9/7-9/200...

Bogetic, Zeljko; Fedderke, Johannes - EconWPA - 2005

- income countries for the period 1980-2002 and then project investment needs in these sectors until 2010. Our projections …

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