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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021
an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …
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Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions : Theory and Field Evidence
Berger, Johannes - 2011
mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128837
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Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation
Giuliano, Laura M. - 2011
employees are hired under Hispanic and non-Hispanic, white managers, and then examine the effects of manager-employee ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131166
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Alumni Giving of Business Executives to the Alma Mater : Panel Data Evidence at a Large Metropolitan Research University
Okunade, Albert A. - 2011
Charitable giving to public and private institutions of higher learning in the US is a growing major source of financing academic and support programs. The novel contribution of this research is the estimation of an econometric model of gift-giving alumni business executives of a large public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131417
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132524
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African Leaders : Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows
Constant, Amelie F. - 2010
Leaders are critical to a country's success. They can influence domestic policy via specific measures that they enforce, and they can also influence international public opinion towards their country. Foreign Direct Investments are also essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135190
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The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation : An International Comparison
Kuhn, Andreas - 2010
This paper describes individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation using comparable survey data for fifteen OECD member countries. An overwhelming majority of individuals (more than 90%) believes that top executives earn more than they actually deserve. However,...
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Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure : Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Grund, Christian - 2010
Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. The first approach argues that explicit bonuses serve as substitutes for implicit career concerns....
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and Out of Management Positions
Trzcinski, Eileen - 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in non-leadership, non-high-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139053
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Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences
Bhattacharya, Dhritiman - 2011
cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120407