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People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards : An Empirical Analysis
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2019
How much do a manager's interpersonal skills with subordinates, which we call people management skills, affect employee outcomes? Are managers rewarded for having such skills? Using personnel data from a large, high-tech firm, we show that survey-measured people management skills have a strong...
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Port Efficiency, Maritime Transport Costs and Bilateral Trade
Clark, Ximena; Dollar, David; Micco, Alejandro - 2021
determinant of shipping costs. Improving port efficiency from the 25th to the 75th percentile reduces shipping costs by 12 percent … explain variations in port efficiency and find that they are linked to excessive regulation, the prevalence of organized crime …
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How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible
Engel, Eduardo M. R. A.; Galetovic, Alexander; Fischer, … - 2021
There are many industries in which potentially competitive segments require services provided by natural monopoly bottlenecks (essential facilities). Since it is difficult to regulate these facilities, developing countries are using Demsetz auctions, where the facility is awarded to the firm...
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Relative Returns on Equities in Pacific Basin Countries
Engel, Charles M. - 2010
We examine the factors that determine the differences in ex ante returns on equities in eleven Pacific Basin countries. Our concern is whether real return differentials are primarily caused by nominal return differentials or expected changes in real exchange rates. We find that nominal return...
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Lending to the Unbanked : Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks
Lang, Kevin - 2019
We study roughly 11,000 loans from unlicensed moneylenders to over 1,000 borrowers in Singapore and provide basic …
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No-Bubble Condition : Model-Free Tests in Housing Markets
Giglio, Stefano - 2014
classic rational bubble. We study housing markets in the U.K. and Singapore, where residential property ownership takes the … no evidence for failures of the transversality condition in housing markets in the U.K. and Singapore, even during …
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Very Long-Run Discount Rates
Giglio, Stefano - 2014
very long run, 100 or more years away. We exploit a unique feature of housing markets in the U.K. and Singapore, where …
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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems : An International Comparison
Beshears, John - 2015
What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
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Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility : Singapore'S Experience
Kapur, Basant K. - 2021
Singapore%u2019s experience with international capital flows over the past two decades or so has been a rather %u2013 … system and equities market, and operating on a Currency Board (CB) system (although with some differences from Singapore … time. We next discuss Singapore%u2019s policy background and early experience, and in the light of Hong Kong%u2019s …
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The Tyranny of Numbers : Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience
Young, Alwyn - 2021
of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong …
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