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Hold your fire! : influence of female legislators on gun legislation in the US

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023

Objective: This paper considers the influence of female legislators on gun legislation across US states. Females have … econometrically estimate the drivers of gun legislation across US states. The dependent variables are alternately the total number of … used. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that, when it comes to gun legislation and female legislator representation, it …

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Disentangling managerial incentives from a dynamic perspective : the role of stock grants

Hili, Amal; Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van - 2016

We analyze the optimal contract between a risk-averse manager and the initial shareholders in a two-period model where the manager's investment effort, carried out in period 1, and her current effort, carried out in period 2, both impact the second-period profit, so that it may be difficult to...

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A general framework for studying contests

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2019

We develop a general framework to study contests, containing the well-known models of Tullock (1980) and Lazear & Rosen (1981) as special cases. The contest outcome depends on players' effort and skill, the latter being subject to symmetric uncertainty. The model is tractable, because a...

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Wage posting as a positive selection device : theory and empirical evidence

Gartner, Hermann; Holzner, Christian - 2015

We use the German Job Vacancy Survey to investigate whether firms are able to attract more suitable applicants by … find that the offer to bargain over pay decreases the share of suitable applicants. To explain these findings we develop a …

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Strategic investment decisions in multi-stage contests with heterogeneous players

Deutscher, Christian; Sahm, Marco; Schneemann, Sandra; … - 2019

We study strategic investment decisions in multi-stage contests with heterogeneous players. Our theoretical model of a round-robin rank-order tournament predicts that players conserve resources in a current contest to spend more in the subsequent contest if the degree of heterogeneity in the...

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Endogenous maternity allowances as exemplified by academic promotion standards

Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2019

I model the strategic interaction between scientists aiming for promotion and a research institution that seeks a highly productive faculty by setting a maternity allowance in the form of a minimum promotion standard. The model shows that maternity allowances need not derive from moral justice...

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Absenteeism, unemployment and employment protection legislation : evidence from Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - 2013

Protection Legislation to workers employed in small and large firms. We use a panel of administrative data (WHIP) and consider … legislation ; unemployment …

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A general framework for studying contests

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2020

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Gender differences in professional career dynamics : new evidence from a global law firm

Ganguli, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina - 2020

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law firms and operates in 23 countries. The sample includes countries at different stages of...

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The market for CEOs

Cziraki, Peter; Jenter, Dirk - 2021

We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs' prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...

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