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This is a version, slightly corrected in 2010 with regard to form, of a working paper produced in 1968. Its subject is the problem of the realism of assumptions in economics. It offers an interpretation of Milton Friedman's famous essay of 1953 in which, contrary to most discussions, Friedman's...
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An elementary arbitrage principle and the existence of trends in financial time series, which is based on a theorem published in 1995 by P. Cartier and Y. Perrin, lead to a new understanding of option pricing and dynamic hedging. Intricate problems related to violent behaviors of the underlying,...
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Early regulator interventions into problem banks is one of the key suggestions of Basel II. However, no guidance is given on their design. To fill this gap, we outline an incentive-based preventive supervision strategy that eliminates bad asset management in banks. Two supervision techniques are...
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This paper applies the Mean Fi eld Game approach pioneered by Lasry and Lions (2007) to the analysis of the researchers' academic productivity. It provides a theoretical motivation for the stability of the universaly observed Lotka's law. It shows that a remuneration scheme taking into account...
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This article analyzes some of the issues raised by institutionalized public-private partnerships in an economic perspective. We demonstrate that although they may address some of the main limits of purely contractual public-private partnerships, such as the issues of control, know-how transfer,...
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This paper examines the incentives from stock options for loss-averse employees subject to probability weighting …, the model predicts that incentives are maximized for strike prices set around the stock price at inception. This finding … accommodating their existence. The paper also examines the relationship between risk taking incentives and stock options and finds …
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This paper examines the incentives from stock options for loss-averse employees subject to probability weighting …, the model predicts that incentives are maximized for strike prices set around the stock price at inception. This finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538938
This paper examines the incentives from stock options for loss-averse employees subject to probability weighting … incentives are maximized for strike prices set around the stock price at inception. This finding is consistent with companies … examines the relationship between risk taking incentives and stock options and finds that an executive who is subject to …
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This paper examines the incentives from stock options for loss-averse employees subject to probability weighting …, the model predicts that incentives are maximized for strike prices set around the stock price at inception. This finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295308
. Nevertheless, this optimal utilisation is lessened by weak or even negative incentives which may lead to a sub-optimal equilibrium …
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