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Agency costs are a cost of production, and firms that do a better job of minimizing these costs should exhibit better performance. This paper tests this hypothesis by calculating the performance elasticity of average employee hourly compensation for U.S. manufacturing firms. This elasticity...
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compensation contracts (i.e., with greater incentives) are more likely to be fired following poor firm performance. Logit … estimations indicate that among firms that make a net loss in a given year, a CEO receiving incentives at the 60th percentile … level is 26.55% more likely to be fired than a CEO with incentives at the 40th percentile. The corresponding figure for …
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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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This paper gives a description of fertility influence on education level of population and its well-being. We carry out the consideration by a demographic model keeping age structure. We suppose that (i) a part of GDP ia used for investment in education, (ii) the production level depends on the...
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incentives effects and recent experiences in Eastern and Central Europe. …
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Der Artikel liefert einen Einblick in die wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Sichtweise der Terrorismusforschung und versucht Aspekte der zukünftigen Entwicklung zu beleuch-ten. Dabei werden Konzepte des Angebots und der Erträge terroristischer Aktivitäten beschrieben und Ansatzpunkte einer...
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}punishments and rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting …, the impact of ex post incentives on informal contracts between principals and agents in bargaining environments in which …
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motivations in support of federalism, namely, incentives and knowledge. Second, it succinctly discusses the incentive …
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Surveys provide widely cited measures of political knowledge. Do unusual aspects of survey interviews affect these measures? An experiment on a nationally representative sample of over 1200 Americans provides an answer. Respondents are randomly assigned to one of four groups. A control group...
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