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Trust and contracts : empirical evidence
D'Acunto, Francesco; Xie, Jin; Yao, Jiaquan - 2020
Trust between parties should drive the negotiation and design of contract: if parties did not trust each others' reaction to unplanned events, they might agree to pay higher costs of negotiation to complete contracts. Using a unique sample of U.S. principal-agent consulting contracts and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318377
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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864551
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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428834
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Talent, career choice and competition : the gender wage gap at the top
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2020
We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306601
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What do central bankers do? : evidence from the European Central Bank's Executive Board
Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2019
This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working time. Using detailed information from personal diaries of the six members of the European Central Bank's Executive Board over a period of two years, we codify and analyze more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962284
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Managers as knowledge carriers : explaining Firms' internationalization success with manager mobility
Meinen, Philipp; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Sala, Davide; … - 2018
How does "what managers know" affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable importance in the international economic literature. Answering it will be key for comprehending the way firms’ varying performance on international markets is shaped by the human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867233
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Let their knowledge flow : the effect of returning refugees on export performance in the former yugoslavia
Bahar, Dany; Hauptmann, Andreas; Özgüzel, Cem; … - 2018
During the early 1990s Germany received over half a million Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many of these refugees, who were under temporary protection, had been repatriated. We exploit this historical episode to provide causal evidence on the role that migrants play explaining export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933941
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Skupinové rozhodovanie: metódy podľa renomovaných zahraničných autorov
Misun, Juraj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We divide the managerial decision making according to the number of decision making subjects, into individual and group one. The group decision making occurs, when the group members participate in the decision selection of the potential alternatives. Compared to the individual decision making,...
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Risk management by the Basel Committee: evaluating progress made from the 1988 Basel Accord to recent developments
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
these Accords, namely the management of risk, that more work is still required particularly in relation to hedge funds and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260315
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Risk management by the Basel Committee: evaluating progress made from the 1988 Basel Accord to recent developments
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
these Accords, namely the management of risk, that more work is still required particularly in relation to hedge funds and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025747