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Applied economists often wish to measure the effects of managerial decisions or policy changes on plant-level productivity patterns. But plant-level data on physical quantities of output, capital, and intermediate inputs are usually unavailable. Therefore, when constructing productivity...
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management and governance that deserves the attention of researchers …
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I analyze skill's role in active management under general equilibrium with many assets and costly trading. More … management in aggregate then corrects prices more, shrinking the profits those opportunities offer. The latter effect can … dominate in a setting consistent with numerous empirical properties of active management and stock returns …
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In this study, we empirically test “quiet life hypothesis,” which predicts that managers who are subject to weak monitoring from the shareholders avoid making difficult decisions such as risky investment and business restructuring with Japanese firm data. We employ cross-shareholder and...
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Managerial know-how shapes the productivity of firms by defining the set of available technologies, production choices, and market opportunities. This know-how can be reallocated across countries as managers acquire control of factors of production abroad. In this paper, we construct a...
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that the law constrains managerial majority shareholders, both in their day-to-day management and when they redeem the …
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We show that economic conditions when managers enter the labor market have long-run effects on their career paths and managerial styles. Managers who began their careers during recessions become CEOs more quickly, but at smaller firms. They also have more conservative styles, such as lower...
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We empirically analyze the nature of returns to scale in active mutual fund management. We find strong evidence of … avoid econometric biases are insignificant. We also find that the active management industry has become more skilled over …
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Using the dollar-value a mutual fund manager adds as the measure of skill, we find that not only does skill exist (the average mutual fund manager adds about $2 million per year), but this skill is persistent, as far out as 10 years. We further document that investors recognize this skill and...
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The allocation of decision rights within organizations influences resource allocation, expansion decisions, and ultimately outcomes. Using a newly constructed dataset, I estimate the effects of an earned autonomy program for State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in India. The program gave managers (the...
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