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Managers conducting earnings conference calls display distinctive styles in their word choice. Some CEOs and CFOs are … find earnings news less informative when managers are vague; they respond less and more slowly as a result. Thus …
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, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theories would … require data on productivity, on the preferences of those who interact with managers, and on perceptions of productivity …
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We examine whether credit rating agencies reward accurate or biased analysts. Using data collected from Moody's corporate debt credit reports, we find that Moody's is more likely to promote analysts who are accurate, but less likely to promote analysts who downgrade frequently. Combined,...
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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 … environment is important to the formation and selection of managers …
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The best worker is not always the best candidate for manager. In these cases, do firms promote the best potential manager or the best worker in her current job? Using microdata on the performance of sales workers at 214 firms, we find evidence consistent with the “Peter Principle,” which...
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This paper examines the labor market for mutual fund managers and managers' responses to the implicit incentives … the hypothesis that fund companies are learning about managers' abilities, managerial turnover is more performance …-sensitive for younger fund managers. Interpreting the separation-performance relationship as an incentive scheme, several of our …
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The analyses below compare the career histories and personal characteristics of the executives in the top ranks of the world's largest and most stable business operations, the Fortune 100, between 1980 and 2001. To our knowledge, there have been no prior studies of contemporary changes in the...
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, selection does not impede the promotion of behavioral managers. Instead, competitive environments oftentimes promote their …
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Following a brief review of the U.S. domestic airline industry under regulation (1938-1978), we study the changes that have occurred in pricing, service, and competition in the 28 years since deregulation. We then examine some of the major public policy issues facing the industry: (a) the...
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This paper explores the determinants of corporate failure and the pricing of financially distressed stocks using US data over the period 1963 to 2003. Firms with higher leverage, lower profitability, lower market capitalization, lower past stock returns, more volatile past stock returns, lower...
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