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Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...
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discrete bonuses after they do sufficiently well. By adjusting monitoring intensity and communication of performance, the …
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Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? In this paper the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. I show that the principal explains her evaluation to the agent if the evaluation turns out to be...
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commitment. By allowing the principal to use general communication devices we overcome the literature's common, but overly … restrictive focus on one-shot, direct communication. In addition, general communication devices solve two fundamental problems of … the message spaces of the communication device. An example illustrates our arguments and the suboptimality of one …
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Over 20 years, M&A contracts have more than doubled in size – from 35 to 88 single-spaced pages in this paper's font. They have also grown significantly in linguistic complexity – from post-graduate “grade 20” to post-doctoral “grade 30”. A substantial portion (lower bound ~20%) of...
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models for private firms. Our estimates point to significant financing constraints due to agency frictions and highlight the …
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