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A Theory of Crowdfunding - A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard
Strausz, Roland - 2016
Crowdfunding provides innovation in enabling entrepreneurs to contract with consumers before investment. Under … information threatens this benefit. Despite these threats, popular crowdfunding schemes are able to implement optimal screening … mechanisms. Crowdfunding's after-markets enable consumers to actively implement deferred payments and thereby optimally manage …
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Stock Market Returns, Corporate Governance and Capital Market Equilibrium
Parigi, Bruno Maria; Pelizzon, Loriana; von Thadden, … - 2021
This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that corporate governance affects firms’ stock...
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Politics-Business Interaction Paths
Belloc, Marianna; Pagano, Ugo - 2010
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
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Stock Market Returns, Corporate Governance and Capital Market Equilibrium
Parigi, Bruno Maria; Pelizzon, Loriana; Thadden, … - CESifo - 2013
This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that corporate governance affects firms’ stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720638
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Politics-Business Interaction Paths
Belloc, Marianna; Pagano, Ugo - CESifo - 2009
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572479
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Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2008
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the repeat purchase mechanism (Klein and Leffler (1981)) and efficiency wages (Shapiro and Stiglitz...
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Understanding the Time to Court Case Resolution : A Competing Risks Analysis Using Belgian Data
Bielen, Samantha - 2017
Court delays are a frequent concern, yet what explains court case duration remains incompletely understood. We study the time to court case resolution by drawing on a detailed case-level dataset of civil suits filed at a major Belgian court. We utilize the competing risks regression framework to...
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Dynastic Entrepreneurship, Entry, and Non-Compete Enforcement
Rauch, James E. - 2015
We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs. Without finance constraints, enforcement of non-compete agreements unambiguously improves social welfare outcomes, and even increases the rate of spinoffs from original firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021433
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Energy Taxes and Natural Gas Demand in EU-Countries
Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - CESifo - 2001
Producers or consumers faced with an increase in taxes are usually able to shift parts of it to other levels in the value chain. We examine who is actually bearing the burden of increased energy taxes in the EU-area - consumers or exporters. Traditional tax incidence theory presumes spot...
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Investor Protection and Foreign Stakeholders
Giofré, Maela - 2014
Different investor classes are endowed with different rights, and conflicting interests among them can make protections afforded to one party detrimental to another. Indeed, we find that investor protection laws have sizeable "cross" effects on foreign portfolio investment and the direction of...
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