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This paper considers how managers choose the timing of investment in risky but value-increasing projects with a liquidation possibility for their firm when their personal objectives are not aligned with those of shareholders but their compensation is endogenously determined. Using a real options...
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private consumption preferences affect the budgeting behavior of managers when they have investment decision rights, and that … decision rights to the manager. This occurs to a higher extent during the earlier stages of the investment when the principal … decision rights are delegated and during the more mature stages of the investment when uncertainty about his consumption …
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We develop a dynamic model of trading and investment with limited aggregate resources to study investment cycles. Unverifiable idiosyncratic investment opportunities imply market prices to play a role of rent distribution, distorting private investment incentives from a social point of view....
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We develop a model that shows how rent-seeking behavior on the part of division managers can subvert the workings of an internal capital market. In an effort to stop rent-seeking, corporate headquarters will be effectively forced into paying bribes to some division managers. And because...
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work for broader issues in both macroeconomics and the theory of the firm …
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When previous studies analyze the relationship between compensation scheme and corporate behavior, they do not explicitly consider the personal risk aversion of executives. We directly measure the degree of risk aversion by a survey with Japanese data. We find that the higher the personal risk...
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