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This paper presents a model analyzing the potential for an International Court with powers to declare standstills to mitigate the coordination problem inherent to roll-overs in sovereign debt markets. It is shown that, regardless of the quality of the information handled by such an Institution,...
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We investigate the association between the reputation, tenure and cash compensation of independent audit committee … (ii) the cash compensation paid to independent audit committee members. Our results suggest that independent audit … financial statements are of high quality. Our findings on compensation suggest that monetary incentives motivate independent …
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This paper examines the “activist effect” on the levels and structures of CEO compensation when a company is targeted … target investments in an effort to increase shareholder value. Due to their efforts to impose return enhancing agendas on the … why compensation changes are a logical focus for extension of the previous research. The study is based on a sample of …
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firm. Previous studies have asserted that workers exert more effort when monetary incentives are increased, and that effort … labor effort incentives. To do this, we analyze the factors that incentivize tennis players to exert maximal effort in two … Cup), and compare the results. We find that effort exertion increases with greater monetary incentive, and that certain …
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While a variety of studies analysed the benign effects of privatisation on firm performance under post-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows a weaving mill from 1998 to 1997 on its way of...
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professionals in the non-profit and governmental sector receive less compensation compared to their counterparts in the for … inequalities on the basis of gender and male IT professionals receive 7.8% more in total compensation than their female …
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Corporate ethics and chief executive officer (CEO) compensation will be forever linked together. The dramatic increase …. The connection between these two topics led me to explore how executive compensation plans are designed and how ethics …’s compensation. I also examine how profitable a company is with an ethical CEO compared to a company with an unethical CEO. The …
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Myron Tribus interviews Homer Sarasohn in Arizona. Sarasohn begins by talking about the history and background of industries such as the Ford Motor Company. Sarasohn says that he joined Booz Allen Hamilton when he returned to the United States from Japan. He then talks about business practices...
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Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...
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The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...
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