and the firm can base its incentive payments on good information. Competition, however, may allow themarket and explicit …

agents sheepishly following the actions of others, but such actions can be rational under asymmetric information and …

We study the impact of private information on volatility in financial markets. We develop a comprehensive framework to … investigate this link while controlling for the effects of both public information (such as macroeconomic news releases) and … private information on prices and the effects of public information on volatility. Using a high-frequency 30-year U …

This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … natural research setting, because performance can be observed at the individual level and without the obscuring effects of … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance …

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture … formulate the following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education … year t and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year, including …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

competition on their integral performance. The present paper aims to trace to what extent and why some cities outperform others … explicit consideration of the perceptions of important classes of stakeholders on the performance outcomes of the various …