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Exit options and the allocation of authority
Bester, Helmut; Krähmer, Daniel - 2013
We analyze the optimal allocation of authority in an organization whose members have conflicting preferences. One party … has decision-relevant private information, and the party who obtains authority decides in a self-interested way. As a … optimal to assign authority to the informed and not to the uninformed party, irrespective of the parties' conflict of interest …
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New evidence on ownership structures in Germany
Köke, F. Jens - 1999
Ownership structures are an important element of the theory explaining corporate governance. This study presents detailed descriptive evidence on the ownership structures of German manufacturing firms. It addresses several shortcomings of the previous German empirical literature: First, we study...
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Some peculiarities of group decision making in teams
Karotkin, Drora; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 1994
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On the specification of the duration of labor contracts
Danziger, Leif - 1987
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Capital formation and the role of longterm labour contracts
Bean, Charles R. - 1983
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Multiperiod wage contracts and productivity profiles
Timmis, Jerry; Bernhardt, Dan - 1985
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Labour contracts with firms subject to debt default penalties
Farrow, Raymond J. - 1986 - Rev.
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Endogenous group formation in experimental contests
Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013
We study endogenous group formation in tournaments employing experimental threeplayer contests. We find that players in endogenously formed alliances cope better with the moral hazard problem in groups than players who are forced into an alliance. Also, players who are committed to expending...
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De-composing diversity : in-group size and out-group entropy and their relationship to neighbourhood cohesion
Koopmans, Ruud; Schaeffer, Merlin - 2013
Ethnic diversity is typically measured by the well-known Hirschman-Herfindahl Index. This paper discusses the merits of an alternative approach, which is in our view better suited to tease out why and how ethnic diversity matters. The approach consists of two elements. First, all existing...
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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016
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