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This paper develops a theory of central bank accountability. Two aspects of accountability are considered. The first …. Transparency enhances the central bank’s accountability. Another way to make the central bank accountable is to shift final … central bank lower. The paper shows that accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and …
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JEL classifications: C92; D44; J31; D72; D82;
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Should mergers among nonprofit organizations be regulated differently than mergers among for-profit firms? The relevant … organizations with varying goals. Consequently, mergers among certain nonprofit organizations should not necessarily be treated in …
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Managers are risk averse. Excessive risk-aversion can destroy shareholder wealth. A key source of risk is the threat of an opportunistic takeover designed to take advantage of depressed market prices. This is especially the case in innovative or hard-to-value (`HtV') companies whose price may be...
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Taking into account both competence and governance issues, and six dimensions of tie strength, this article argues that …
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of institutional features. An institutional approach is introduced that requires a cooperative governance to realize the … potential value-production by firms, or to realize the potential user-value by clubs. For each, a distinctive governance system … is introduced. The firm requires an implementation governance to activate the value-production capacities of its service …
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This article employs Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) to investigate whether, and under what conditions, trust is viable in markets. The emergence and breakdown of trust is modeled in a context of multiple buyers and suppliers. Agents develop trust in a partner as a function of observed...
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In this article we provide an empirical illustration of hypotheses, developed in the literature, on the role of density and strength of ties in innovation networks.We study both exploration and exploitation networks in the Dutch multimedia and pharmaceutical biotechnology industry.We find...
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This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations … relational risk are identified: hold-up and spillover risk.For the governance of relations, i.e. the control of relational risk …
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We ask how pension fund trustees deal with the booms and busts that funds encounter, and to what extent the decisions of pension fund trustees are affected by behavioral biases. We examine these issues by using a vignette-method field experiment among Dutch pension fund trustees. We find that...
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