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collateral constraints and endogenous entry and exit. A defining feature of our model is a non-Gaussian process of firm …
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We study managerial incentive provision under moral hazard in an environment where growth opportunities arrive stochastically over time and taking them requires a change of management. The firm faces a trade-off between the benefit of always having a manager able to seize new opportunities and...
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In private debt contracts with a borrower consent clause, a creditor's decision to transfer its portion of the loan can be thwarted if the borrower denies the consent to loan transfer. We find that the probability of the inclusion of a borrower consent clause in a private debt contract increases...
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We investigate how borrower consent clause (BCC) is used in private debt contracts as a contract design mechanism to protect borrower interests. We find that the probability of including a BCC in debt contracts increases in the intensity of creditor control rights measured by number of financial...
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empirical tests, motivated by a simple theory, demonstrate that low-liquidity firms amplified its transmission. …
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This paper presents a moral hazard model analyzing the agent's incentive to commit corporate crime. The principal can only observe profits which the agent can increase by committing crime or exerting effort. It is shown how different incentive contracts, i.e., thresholdlinear, capped bonus and...
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This paper is concerned with the coexistence of company-owned units and franchised units in business format franchising … construct a multitask model to account for such contract mixing in franchising. Intuitively, low-powered contracts are offered … the remaining managers to elicit sales activity and capture the beneficial effect of the company brand name. Franchising …
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This paper is concerned with the coexistence of company-owned units and franchised units in business format franchising … construct a multitask model to account for such contract mixing in franchising. Intuitively, low-powered contracts are offered … the remaining managers to elicit sales activity and capture the beneficial effect of the company brand name. Franchising …
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The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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