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Confidence and career choices : an experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2020 - 2nd revision June 2020

Confidence in one's own abilities is often seen as an important determinant of being successful. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's own abilities causally influence choices is, however, sparse. In this paper, we use a stylized laboratory experiment to investigate the causal...

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Confidence and career choices : an experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...

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Delegation, promotion, and manager selection

Häusinger, Benjamin - 2019

misalignment between managers and the firm, these two purposes are in conflict. This is because the worker with the largest private …: employees that create lower expected profits as managers have yet better promotion prospects. That finding still holds when the … firm owner optimally chooses the promotion rule, the degree of delegation, and wage payments to both employees and managers …

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Executive board composition and bank risk taking

Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - 2012

Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...

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Do all new brooms sweep clean? : evidence for outside bank appointments

Kick, Thomas; Nehring, Inge; Schertler, Andrea - 2017

Banks in bad financial shape are more likely to appoint executive directors from the outside than those in good shape. It is, however, not clear whether all of these appointments necessarily lead to the desired turnaround. We analyze the performance effects of new board members with external...

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Welcome on board? : appointment dynamics of women as directors

Schoonjans, Eline; Hottenrott, Hanna; Buchwald, Achim - 2023

Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policymakers. Yet, we know little about director appointment dynamics and the drivers and impediments of women appointments. This study builds on organizational and group-level behavior theories and...

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All-star or benchwarmer? : relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; Tingting, Zhang - 2015

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The careers of immigrants

De Matos, Ana Dama - 2012

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Erste Befunde aus dem Projekt "MATH+ as a Research Object": Karriereziele, -wissen und -handeln, Nachwuchsförderung und Rekrutierung

Hofmeister, Sophie; Lindenau, Johannes; Mischau, Anina; … - 2021

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Career paths in online labor markets : same, same but different?

Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020

The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the volatility and digital nature of this environment, short-term employment relationships and heterogeneity of workers, employers and tasks in these markets, it is unclear how careers...

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