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Trust and growth
Zak, Paul J.; Knack, Stephen F. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 111 (2001), pp. 295-321
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Managerial Equity Holdings and Income Smoothing Incentives
Shu, Sydney Qing - 2017
the different roles of stock holdings and option holdings in solving agency problems, managers may smooth past earnings … holdings aligning the interests of managers and shareholders, and managers using discretionary accruals to smooth past earnings … risk-taking by managers, and managers use discretionary accruals to mask volatility of less predictable earnings. Thus, we …
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Moral hazard, competition and contract design : empirical evidence from managerial, franchised and entrepreneurial businesses in Norway
Nygaard, Arne; Myrtveit, Ingunn - In: Applied economics 32 (2000) 3, pp. 349-356
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Essays on financial economics and macroeconomics
Agarwal, Ruchir - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815547
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Trust and Growth
Algan, Yann - 2013
This article surveys recent research on the relationship between trust and growth. It documents the strong international and interregional heterogeneity of trust. The theoretical mechanisms that explain the influence of trust on economic performance and the empirical methods used to identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078111
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Trust and Growth
Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Uslaner, Eric M. - 2013
Using data from US states, we find a positive relationship between trust and growth. According to our results, a 10 percentage point increase in trust increases the growth rate of per capita income by 0.5 percentage point, growth rate of housing prices by 1.25 percentage points, and the growth...
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Trust and Growth
Zak, Paul J.; Knack, Stephen - 2002
rate of investment. The predictions of the model are examined empirically for a cross-section of countries and have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119138
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Trust and Growth
Zak, Paul J.; Knack, Stephen - 1999
and show that low trust environments reduce the rate of investment and thus the economy's growth rate. Further, we show …-trust societies, in turn, exhibit higher rates of investment and growth …
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CEO Overconfidence and Cost Stickiness
Kuang, Yu Flora - 2017
Cost stickiness occurs when costs decrease less when sales fall than they increase when sales rise. Prior literature provides both economic and agency explanations of sticky costs. Our study tackles this cost behavior from a managerial behavioral perspective. We predict and find that cost...
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Performance incentives within firms : the effect of managerial responsibility
Aggarwal, Raj; Samwick, Andrew - In: The journal of finance : the journal of the American … 58 (2003) 4, pp. 1613-1650
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