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Height and leadership
Lindqvist, Erik - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...
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How to avoid compensating CEO for luck : the case of microeconomic fluctuations
Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas; Zhang, Jianhua - 2010
Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences on remuneration. These influences can be seen as reflecting luck from the CEO’s perspective. In this chapter we present a model for how to avoid compensating CEO for...
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Executive compensation and macroeconomic fluctuations
Oxelheim, Lars (contributor); Wihlborg, Clas (contributor);  … - 2008
Macroeconomic fluctuations affect corporations’ performance through demand and cost conditions. Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences if management is unable to forecast macroeconomic fluctuations or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003691579
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Equal opportunity? : gender gaps in CEO appointments and executive pay
Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli; Tåg, Joacim - 2016
This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eight of the gaps can be attributed to observable gender...
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The making of a manager : evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
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The social background of elite executives : the Swedish case
Henrekson, Magnus; Lyssarides, Odd - 2016
Sweden is often described as a country where intergenerational social mobility is high, but research also shows that … mobility for an extreme elite group in society: the CEOs of Sweden's 30 largest public firms since 1945. To our knowledge … former and current CEOs who grew up in Sweden and born between the late1800s and 1970. We have information about paternal …
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Match made at birth? : what traits of a million Swedes tell Us about CEOs
Adams, Renée; Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli - 2014
This paper analyzes the role three personal traits - cognitive and non-cognitive ability, and height - play in the market for CEOs. We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory military enlistment test, with comprehensive data on their...
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The headmaster ritual : the importance of management of school outcomes
Böhlmark, Anders; Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2012
The role of school principals largely resembles that of corporate managers and the leadership they provide are often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632192
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All the single ladies : job promotions and the durability of marriage
Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2016
This paper addresses women's under-representation in top jobs in organizational hierarchies. We show that promotions to top jobs dramatically increase women's probability of divorce, but do not affect men's marriages. This effect is causally estimated for top jobs in the political sector, where...
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Should R&D champions be protected from foreign takeovers?
Bertrand, Olivier (contributor) - 2008
We analyze how the entry mode of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) affects affiliate R&D activities. Using unique affiliate level data for Swedish multinational firms, we first present empirical evidence that acquired affiliates have a higher level of R&D intensity than greenfield (start-up)...
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