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Using a comprehensive micro-database of Canadian firms in conjunction with industry-level data on commodity flows, we develop a profile of corporate diversification within the Canadian economy. Our analysis has two major objectives. First, we decompose corporate diversification into horizontal...
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In recent years, cities have become increasingly interested in their ability to generate, attract and retain human capital. One measure of human capital is employment in science- and engineering-based occupations. This paper provides a comparison of the employment shares of these specialized...
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performance in a real competitive environment with real tasks and real incentives. …
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raise or lower their performance? Behavioral evidence on these important questions is rare. This paper takes a novel … positional concerns and envy reduce individual performance. In contrast, there does not seem to be any tolerance for income …
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against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …
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raise or lower their performance? Behavioral evidence on these important questions is rare. This paper takes a novel … positional concerns and envy reduce individual performance. In contrast, there does not seem to be any tolerance for income …
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performance in a real competitive environment with real tasks and real incentives. …
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Using a tried and tested measure of management practices which has been shown to predict firm performance, we survey … incentives for staff recruitment, retention and promotion, are correlated with both teaching and research performance conditional … on resources and past performance. Moreover, this relationship holds for all universities, not just research …
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Using a tried and tested measure of management practices which has been shown to predict firm performance, we survey … incentives for staff recruitment, retention and promotion, are correlated with both teaching and research performance conditional … on resources and past performance. Moreover, this relationship holds for all universities, not just research …
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This paper analyses the relationship between active management and performance in US equity mutual funds over the … period 2001-2011 for both gross and net returns. Mutual funds achieve nonzero abnormal performance through strategies that …-varying parameters, idiosyncratic risk and turnover. The results show a negative aggregate performance close to zero. Performance is …
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