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Basel Ii : A Contracting Perspective
Kane, Edward J. - 2010
Financial safety nets are incomplete social contracts that assign responsibility to various economic sectors for preventing, detecting, and paying for potentially crippling losses at financial institutions. This paper uses the theories of incomplete contracts and sequential bargaining to...
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Data Analysis, Communication, and Control
Welsch, Roy E. - 2021
The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid assumptions, resistance, validity, prior information,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243465
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An Analysis of Divisional Investment Policies
Shin, Hyun-Han - 2008
This paper investigates the divisional investment policies of diversified firms. We find that investment of the smallest division of diversified firms is significantly related to the cash flow of the other segments. We then show that the smallest division's investment is more sensitive to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774975
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The Cost of Diversity : The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2006
In a simple model of capital budgeting in a diversified firm where headquarters has limited power, we show that funds are allocated towards the most inefficient divisions. The distortion is greater the more diverse are the investment opportunities of the firm's divisions. We test these...
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Organizational Complexity and Balance Sheet Management in Global Banks
Cetorelli, Nicola - 2016
Banks have progressively evolved from being standalone institutions to being subsidiaries of increasingly complex financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational complexity of the family of a bank is a fundamental driver of the business model of the bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994377
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Incentives, Information, and Organizational Design
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021
This paper explores the interaction between incentives, information, and organizational design. It argues that the virtues of the market economy do not lie so much in the vision of competition and decentralization embodied in the Arrow-Debreu model, or the Lange-Lerner-Taylor analysis of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215336
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Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy
Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2021
We present a theory of the organization of work in an economy where knowledge is an essential input in production: a … may produce on their own or in organizations. Our theory generates an assignment of workers to positions, a wage structure … referral markets. We use our theory to study the impact of information and communication technology, and contrast its …
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From Sectoral to Functional Urban Specialization
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - 2021
Striking evidence is presented of a previously unremarked transformation of urban structure from mainly sectoral to mainly functional specialization. We offer an explanation showing that this transformation is inextricably interrelated with changes in firms' organization. A greater variety of...
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An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories About Complimentarity in Organizational Design
Athey, Susan; Stern, Scott - 2022
This paper studies alternative empirical strategies for estimating the effects of organization design practices on performance, as well as the factors which determine organizational design, in a cross-section of firms. Our economic model is based on a firm where multiple organizational design...
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Urban Specialisation; from Sectoral to Functional
Gervais, Antoine; Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony J. - 2022
costs fall, both our theory and empirical analysis show that sector concentration and regional specialization fall for …
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