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Changing Social Contracts : Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil
Alston, Lee J. - 2012
Social contracts about inequality and redistribution are country-specific. We rely on a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states can emerge in given country. We link the model to the recent literature on beliefs and argue that beliefs are a major determinant of which...
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Inadequacy of Nation-Based and Var-Based Safety Nets in the European Union
Kane, Edward J. - 2009
Considered as a social contract, a financial safety net imposes duties and confers rights on different sectors of the economy. Within a nation, elements of incompleteness inherent in this contract generate principal-agent conflicts that are mitigated by formal agreements, norms, laws, and the...
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Firms' Stakeholders and the Costs of Transparency
Almazan, Andres - 2014
stakeholders. Because there are spillover benefits associated with being associated with a "winner," the perceptions of … stakeholders and potential stakeholders can affect firm value. Our analysis indicates that while transparency (i.e., generating … information regarding the extent to which stakeholders benefit from having a relationship with a high quality firm. These costs …
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Bank CEO Incentives and the Credit Crisis
Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2010
We investigate whether bank performance during the credit crisis of 2008 is related to CEO incentives and share ownership before the crisis and whether CEOs reduced their equity stakes in their banks in anticipation of the crisis. There is no evidence that banks with CEOs whose incentives were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151644
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Governance and Stakeholders
Mehrotra, Vikas - 2017
stakeholders – entrepreneurial founders or CEOs, employees, employees, customers, suppliers, communities or governments, having …
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Executive Compensation, Strategic Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation : Theory and Evidence
Aggarwal, Rajesh K. - 2010
We argue that strategic interactions between firms in an oligopoly can explain the puzzling lack of high-powered incentives in executive compensation contracts written by shareholders whose objective is to maximize the value of their shares. We derive the optimal compensation contracts for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135269
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Agency Problems and the Fate of Capitalism
Morck, Randall - 2010
Economics has firms maximizing value and people maximizing utility, but firms are run by people. Agency theory concerns the mitigation of this internal contradiction in capitalism. Firms need charters, regulations and laws to restrain those entrusted with their governance, just as economies need...
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Transparency and Credibility : Monetary Policy with Unobservable Goals
Faust, Jon - 2010
We define and study transparency, credibility, and reputation in a model where the central bank's characteristics are unobservable to the private sector and are inferred from the policy outcome. A low-credibility bank optimally conducts a more inflationary policy than a high-credibility bank, in...
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Competition and the Ratchet Effect
Charness, Gary - 2010
In labor markets, the ratchet effect refers to a situation where workers subject to performance pay choose to restrict their output, because they rationally anticipate that firms will respond to higher output levels by raising output requirements or cutting pay. We model this effect as a...
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CEO Preferences and Acquisitions
Jenter, Dirk - 2011
This paper explores the impact of target CEOs' retirement preferences on the incidence, the pricing, and the outcomes of takeover bids. Mergers frequently force target CEOs to retire early, and CEOs' private merger costs are the forgone benefits of staying employed until the planned retirement...
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