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public intervention, and finally exit. When the blockholder faces short-term incentives, the threat of public intervention … incentive horizons, reduction in public intervention by a blockholder with short-term incentives strengthens public intervention … by the other with long-term incentives. This ameliorates the free-rider problem and restores the credibility of the …
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We study the impact of underwriter competition on corporate bond contracts. We develop a new measure of underwriter power and a novel empirical approach, based on the underwriter's comparative ability to place bonds. When an issuer has few "outside options" to take his bond to the market, the...
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We study anti-competitive mergers in a dynamic model with noisy collusion. At each instant, firms either privately choose output levels or merge, which trades off benefits of avoiding price wars against the costs of merging. There are three results. First, mergers are optimal when collusion...
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We present a model where firms compete for scarce managerial talent ("alpha") and managers are risk-averse. When managers cannot move across firms after being hired, employers learn about their talent, allocate them efficiently to projects and provide insurance to low-quality managers. When...
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Separation between CEO and Chairman of the Board is typically viewed as evidence of good corporate governance. Surprisingly, the literature has failed so far to uncover any significant relation between CEO/Chairman duality and firm performance. By distinguishing between periods with and without...
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We study how political factors can shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition rules reduce prices, but do not hurt the quality of services or...
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) is that competition among fund managers should provide them with the incentives to make investment decisions that would … evidence that competitive pressure leads to improved performance. We conclude that incentives and competition are not perfect …
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