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Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management

Bolton, Patrick - 2010

What makes a good leader? A good leader is able to coordinate his followers around a credible mission statement, which communicates the future course of action of the organization. In practice, leaders learn about the best course of action for the organization over time. While learning helps...

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Incentive Pay and Bank Risk-Taking : Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss Banks

Efing, Matthias; Hau, Harald; Kampkötter, Patrick; … - 2021

incentive pay in the critical banking segments of treasury/capital market management and investment banking for 66 banks. We …

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

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How Much Do Firms Pay as Bribes and What Benefits Do They Get? Evidence from Corruption Cases Worldwide

Cheung, Yan-Leung - 2012

We analyze a hand-collected sample of 166 prominent bribery cases, involving 107 publicly listed firms from 20 stock markets that have been reported to have bribed government officials in 52 countries worldwide during 1971-2007. We focus on the initial date of award of the contract for which the...

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Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies

Ben-David, Itzhak - 2008

Using a unique 10-year panel that includes more than 13,300 expected stock market return probability distributions, we find that executives are severely miscalibrated, producing distributions that are too narrow: realized market returns are within the executives' 80% confidence intervals only...

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Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-Rational Goals

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2021

We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a setting with non-rational goals. Goals motivate because they serve as reference points that make...

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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success : Evidence from German Soccer

Hentschel, Sandra - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...

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Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill

Kacperczyk, Marcin T. - 2011

Mutual fund managers can outperform the market by picking stocks or timing the market successfully. Previous work has estimated picking and timing skill, assuming that each manager is endowed with a fixed amount of each and found some evidence of picking skills and little evidence of timing...

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Moretti, Luca - 2017

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …

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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus

Bakanova, Marina - 2006

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been limited. We hypothesize that private ownership will enhance company performance, measured in a...

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