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The procurement of complex projects is often plagued by large cost overruns. One important reason for these additional costs are flaws in the initial design. If the project is procured with a price-only auction, sellers who spotted some of the flaws have no incentive to reveal them early. Each...
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This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through … relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a worker-firm matched panel dataset which enables us to track managers across …. Contrary to blue and white collars, we find that managers are paid a sizeable premium for export experience which has both a …
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This study investigates the development of income-decreasing discretionary expenses surrounding CEO turnovers at banks. We expect incoming CEOs to take an earnings bath during the initial stage of their tenure. For a sample of German banks over the period 1993-2012, we document that (1) incoming...
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