compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation … information rent/efficiency trade-off. If the contract is performance-based (resp. conditionality-based), information rents are …

A positive view of the self is often portrayed as a valuable asset in the sense that it can have performance enhancing … self-evaluations and higher levels of educational performance. However, when we exploit exogenous variation in self … and we obtain a negative effect on performance. We discuss mechanisms that may generate such an adverse causal effect of …

markets. This study analyses whether a SRI screening process applied to equities results in a different performance outcome … performance effects of SRI screens. The 29 SRI stock indexes are analysed by single-factor models with benchmarks that closely …

analyse the impact of the proportion of different occupational groups of apprentices on firm performance. We use … firm performance: the companies cover their training costs immediately. In contrast, companies with apprentices in the …

optimal allocations to this asset class for minimizing mixed-asset portfolio variance or maximizing performance ratios. We …

This paper explores approaches to measure the performance of the internal audit function. Based upon three proposed … dimensions of formal internal audit performance - material performance, cost and risk - it uses competence research methodology … to characterize and structure internal audit competence as the prerequisite for material performance that can be measured …

We introduce a new two-dimensional measure for the heterogeneity of performance within groups of economic units. This … measure accounts both, for the relative performance of the single units of groups and their relative size. We demonstrate that …