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Severance Pay and the Shadow of the Law : Evidence for West Germany

Goerke, Laszlo - 2006

Due to the complexity of employment protection legislation (EPL) in Germany, there is notable uncertainty about the outcomes of dismissal conflicts. In this study we focus on severance pay and inquire whether its incidence and level varies in a systematic manner with the legal rules as defined...

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Corporate governance and employee power in the boardroom : an applied game theoretical analysis

Balsmeier, Benjamin (contributor) - 2011

The discussion about employee representation on supervisory boards has received much attention from scholars and politicians around the world. We provide new insights to this ongoing debate by employing power indices from game theory to examine the "real" power of employees on boards and its...

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Employment Protection and Takeovers

Dessaint, Olivier - 2017

Labor restructuring is a key driver of takeovers and the associated synergy gains worldwide. In a difference-in-differences research design, we show that major increases in employment protection reduce takeover activity by 14-27% and the combined firm gains (synergies) by over half. Consistent...

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Employment protection and incentives : severance pay vs. procedural inconvenience

Eguchi, Kyota - In: Journal of the Japanese and international economies : … 34 (2014), pp. 272-290

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Severance pay and the shadow of the law : evidence for West Germany

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2005

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Severance pay and the shadow of the law : evidence for west Germany

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2005

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Corporate lobbying : a review of the recent literature

Gregor, Martin - 2011

This survey covers recent literature on lobbying, with particular focus on corporate lobbying. Three main research … aspects of lobbying arepresented in the context of a single unified model that encompasses both strategic communication and … monetary contributions. Next, thereview investigates into three particular issues in the lobbying literature: (i) Incentive to …

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Politics of randomness

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2002

clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …

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Contests among bureaucrats

Bös, Dieter - 2002

This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total … departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The … antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the bureaucrats. This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria in lobbying and …

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Limited capacity in project selection : competition through evidence production

Boleslavsky, Raphael; Cotton, Christopher - 2015 - Current version: June 2015

An organization must decide which proposals to fund. In evaluating the proposals, the organization may rely on those applying for funding to produce evidence about the merits of their own proposals. We consider the role of a capacity constraint preventing the organization from funding all...

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