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compensation of financial executives. This increase has been associated with greater risk-taking and the use of more complex … traditional partnership replaced by public companies. The organizational change has increased the competition for managerial … talent, which may have weakened the commitment between investors and managers. We show how increased competition and the …
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Analyses of public policy regularly express certitude about the consequences of alternative policy choices. Yet policy predictions often are fragile, with conclusions resting on critical unsupported assumptions. Then the certitude of policy analysis is not credible. This paper develops a...
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nuclear plant. Nuclear power has long been controversial because of concerns about nuclear accidents, proliferation risk, and …
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well calibrated. Finally we assess the role of risk, finding little evidence that risk-aversion drives a wedge between …
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Risk-adjustment systems used to pay health plans in individual health insurance markets have evolved towards better … risk adjustment. Adding variables demands further plan and provider-supplied data. Some data called for in the more complex … in the number of diagnostic-based risk adjustors are possible using machine learning integrated with our constrained …
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This paper tests the empirical importance of the price dispersion predictions of the Prescott-Eden-Dana (PED) models. Equilibrium price dispersion is derived in a setting with costly capacity and demand uncertainty where different fares can be explained by the different selling probabilities....
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model of risk-selection in such settings. Capitation incentivizes insurers to retain low-cost clients and thus improve their …
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risk-inducing. Using a novel, real-effort task experiment in the laboratory, we find that the relationship between … incentives and risk-taking is more nuanced and depends critically on the availability of information about peers’ strategies and … significantly less risk-taking than non-competitive rewards. In contrast, when decision-makers receive information about their peers …
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We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...
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We show that stricter bank liquidity standards can trigger unintended credit booms when there is heterogeneity in …
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