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Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks
Genicot, Garance - 2019
In this paper, individuals are characterized by their identity -- an ideal code of conduct -- and by a level of tolerance for behaviors that differ from their own ideal. Individuals first choose their behavior, then form social networks. This paper studies the possibility of compromise, i.e....
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Persuasion on Networks
Egorov, Georgy - 2020
We analyze persuasion in a model in which each receiver can buy a direct access to the sender's signal or rely on her network connections to get it. For the sender, a higher bias increases the impact per direct receiver, yet diminishes the willingness of agents to receive information. Contrary...
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Governing Misvalued Firms
Kadyrzhanova, Dalida - 2014
Equity overvaluation is thought to create the potential for managerial misbehavior, while monitoring and corporate governance curb misbehavior. We combine these two insights from the literatures on misvaluation and governance to ask 'when does governance matter?' Examining firms with standard...
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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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The Small World of Investing : Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
Cohen, Lauren - 2007
mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger … managers gaining an informational advantage through the education networks. Our results suggest that social networks may be an …
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Powerful Independent Directors
Fogel, Kathy - 2014
errant top managers, or both …
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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
Rauch, James E. - 2013
"spinouts": managers of input divisions can start their own firms, making customized inputs formerly provided internally subject … lead to inefficiently low entry. Vertically integrated firms can fight back by hiring managers for their input divisions …
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Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary
Lileeva, Alla - 2008
Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …
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Global Sourcing
Antràs, Pol - 2003
We present a North South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...
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Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production
Helpman, Elhanan - 2002
relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …
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