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Executives' "Off-The-Job" Behavior, Corporate Culture, and Financial Reporting Risk

Davidson, Robert - 2012

We examine how executives' behavior outside the workplace, as measured by their ownership of luxury goods (low "frugality") and prior legal infractions, is related to financial reporting risk. We predict and find that CEOs and CFOs with a legal record are more likely to perpetrate fraud. In...

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Managers and Productivity in Retail

Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices that matter. We shed light on this question by...

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Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments

Aryal, Gaurab - 2019

The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately identify and estimate the social and private returns to education within the employer learning...

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Client-Based Entrepreneurship

Rauch, James E. - 2010

soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …

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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2009

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …

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Cash-out or flame-out! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy : Theory, and evidence from the information security industry

Arora, Ashish - 2009

entrepreneurship which identifies survival with performance. Instead, many entrepreneurs aim for a cash-out (IPO or acquisition …

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Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-diversifiable Risk

Chen, Hui - 2009

Entrepreneurs face significant non-diversifiable business risks. We build a dynamic incomplete markets model of entrepreneurial finance to demonstrate the important implications of nondiversifiable risks for entrepreneurs' interdependent consumption, portfolio allocation, financing, investment,...

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The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship

Hall, Robert E. - 2008

aversion, higher initial assets, preferences for entrepreneurship over employment, and optimistic beliefs about the payoffs …

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Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms

Caselli, Francesco - 2007

firms (entrepreneurship) and the average quality of management (meritocracy). Legal reform also reduces financial … improve meritocracy at the expense of entrepreneurship. As a result, legal reform encounters less political opposition than …

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University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups

Chukumba, Celestine - 2005

This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost...

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