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The big sell : privatizing East Germany's economy
Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz; Mergele, Lukas - 2020 - This version: September 11, 2020
within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …
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Committing to grow : privatizations and firm dynamics in East Germany
Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2023
This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014384451
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On hoarding in contract theory
Yaari, Varda Lewinstein - 1990
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A note on long-term contracts
Ito, Takatoshi - 1984
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The impact of contract enforcement costs on outsourcing and aggregate productivity
Boehm, Johannes - 2015
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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2022
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Deterministic versus stochastic contracts in a dynamic principal-agent model
Mettral, Thomas - 2018
I show that deterministic dynamic contracts between a principal and an agent are always at least as profitable to the principal as stochastic ones, if the so-called first-order approach in dynamic mechanism design is satisfied. The principal commits, while the agent's type evolution follows a...
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Robust contracting in general contract spaces
Backhoff-Veraguas, Julio; Beißner, Patrick; Horst, Ulrich - 2020
distribution of agents. We prove the existence of optimal mechanisms under minimal assumptions on the contract space and prove that … centralized contracting implemented via mechanisms is equivalent to delegated contracting implemented via a contract menu under …
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Coordination under loss contracts
Ahrens, Steffen; Bitter, Lea; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril - 2020
control sessions, incentives are formulated as a classic gain contract, while in treatment sessions, incentives are framed as … an isomorphic loss contract. Our results show that loss contracts reduce the minimum efforts of groups and worsen …
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The 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in contract theory
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2017
Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their …
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