abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …-US multinationals in the UK, and this is primarily due to the higher productivity of their IT. Furthermore, establishments that are … taken over by US multinationals increase the productivity of their IT, whereas observationally identical establishments …

This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers … affected by both ownership and competition since both ownership structure and competition provide bargaining chips to employees …. Ownership provides protections which may improve or dull employees’ incentives for human capital investment. When there is …

constitutions: non-profit cooperatives and outside ownership. In the former, ownership is shared among a group of consumers on a one …

We show that allocation of ownership matters even in a long-term relationship where problems of opportunism are less … severe unless agents are very patient. Ownership structure is chosen to give the agents best incentives to cooperate. The … be minimal. The worst ownership structure of the one-shot game is good in the repeated setting because it provides the …

evidence. Results are also applicable to other areas like regulation or welfare benefit allocation. …