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This study examines the role of managers’ political campaign contributions in relation to their firms’ tax benefits … firm. Using a major tax law change, we find that firms’ political action committee contributions and individual managers … contributions to be an increasing function of managers’ wealth effects through the existence of bonus plans that are based on after …
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distinguished player if he also can trade shares of the firm on a market. Arbitrage-free asset pricing theory suggests that the …
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The paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of managers and their incentives on the behavior of group … particular if the managers payoff does not depend on the members behavior. Different incentives schemes induce the managers to … lead the groups into different directions but incentivized managers are less capable of inducing very high or low contest …
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We find evidence that the leadership of overconfident chief executive officers (CEOs) induces stakeholders to take actions that contribute to the leader's vision. By being intentionally overexposed to the idiosyncratic risk of their firms, overconfident CEOs exhibit a strong belief in their...
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A leader of an organization may view a subordinate as threatening or weakening the leader's position. The threat may increase with the subordinate's ability and reduce the rents the leader wins. In particular, a leader who trains his subordinate reduces the cost to the owner of a firm in...
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leader heterogeneity in the selectorate theory of Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003) and derive the hypothesis that in the …
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Individual leaders have been central to the transformation of political institutions, organizations and many instances of social and economic reform. Why are some leaders able to take advantage of opportunities to successfully catalyze large-scale change while others fail? In this paper we argue...
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This paper analyses leadership and charisma within the framework of social choice. In societies that lack formal institutional authorities, the power of leaders to coerce is limited. Under such conditions, we find that social outcomes will depend not only on policy preferences but also on how...
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