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management decisions are influenced by principal agent relationships. How FA affects the demand for managerial effort is a …
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general management skills. …
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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...
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This paper examines the link between a firm’s ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry- and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through...
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We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The Japanese land price bubble and banking trouble in the late 1980s and early 1990s serve as a quasi natural experiment to identify two possible transmission channels from financial...
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Recruitment is often delegated to senior employees. Delegated recruitment, however, is vulnerable to moral hazard … relates to the candidates type . Delegation is then superior to direct (owner) recruitment and offering tenure or guaranteed … seniority to the senior employee is neither always desirable for the owner nor necessary to ensure good recruitment. If there is …
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ensure stability of participation rates, regular sample recruitment is indispensable. Does the dispatch method matter for …
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seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment … planned search period and decreases thereafter, why most applicants arrive early in the recruitment process, and why the …
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Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …
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