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Covid-19, Government Performance, and Democracy : Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries

Becher, Michael; Longuet Marx, Nicolas; Pons, Vincent; … - 2022

Beyond its immediate impact on public health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has put democracy under stress. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government...

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Tips and Tells from Managers : How Analysts and the Market Read between the Lines of Conference Calls

Druz, Marina - 2015

Stock prices react significantly to the tone (negativity of words) managers use on earnings conference calls. This …

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The Politics of CEOS

Cohen, Alma - 2019

CEOs of public companies have influence over the political spending of their firms, which has been attracting significant attention since the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. Furthermore, the policy views expressed by CEOs receive substantial consideration from policymakers and the...

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Seeking Alpha : Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

We present a model in which managers are risk-averse and firms compete for scarce managerial talent ("alpha"). When … managers are not mobile across firms, firms provide efficient compensation, which allows for learning about managerial talent … and for insurance of low-quality managers. When instead managers can move across firms, firms cannot offer co …

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality : Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …

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Does Product Market Competition Reduce Agency Costs?

Jagannathan, Ravi; Srinivasan, Shaker - 2022

The folk wisdom is that competition reduces agency costs. We provide indirect empirical support for this view. We argue …

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Imagining the Future : Memory, Simulation and Beliefs About Covid

Bordalo, Pedro; Burro, Giovanni; Coffman, Katherine B.; … - 2022

How do people form beliefs about novel risks, with which they have little or no experience? A 2020 US survey of beliefs about the lethality of Covid reveals that the elderly underestimate, and the young overestimate, their own risks, and that people with more health adversities are more...

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The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions on Covid-19 Attitudes and Beliefs

Athey, Susan; Grabarz, Kristen; Luca, Michael; … - 2022

During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, a common strategy for public health organizations around the world has been to launch interventions via advertising campaigns on social media. Despite this ubiquity, little has been known about their average effectiveness. We conduct a large-scale...

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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto; Stantcheva, Stefanie - 2022

This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical literature on the effects of racial diversity and...

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Boycko, Maxim - 2016

We repeat a survey we did in the waning days of the Soviet Union (Shiller, Boycko and Korobov, AER 1991) comparing attitudes towards free markets between Moscow and New York. Additional survey questions, from Gibson Duch and Tedin (J. Politics 1992) are added to compare attitudes towards...

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