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Optimal Consumption and Investment with Labor Income and European/American Capital Guarantee
Kronborg, Morten Tolver - In: Risks 2 (2014) 2, pp. 171-194
We present the optimal consumption and investment strategy for an investor, endowed with labor income, searching to maximize utility from consumption and terminal wealth when facing a binding capital constraint of a European (constraint on terminal wealth) or an American (constraint on the...
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Human capital, innovation and competitiveness in Italian industry
Varaldo, Riccardo; Pagano, Alessandro - In: Review of economic conditions in Italy (2003) 2, pp. 283-316
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Cost Dynamics of Clean Energy Technologies
Glenk, Gunther; Meier, Rebecca; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2021
The rapid transition to a decarbonized energy economy is widely believed to hinge on the rate of cost improvements for certain clean energy technologies, in particular renewable power and energy storage. This paper adopts the classical learning-by-doing framework of Wright (1936), which predicts...
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The role of the human capital and managerial skills in explaining the productivity gaps between East and West
Steffen, Wolfgang (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper assess determinants of productivity gaps between firms in the European transition countries and regions and firms in West Germany. The analysis is conducted at the firm level by use of a unique database constructed by field work. The determinants tested in a simple econometric...
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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity
Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016
Korrelation durch das höhere Humankapital eines "Durchschnittsbeschäftigten" in besser gemanagten Firmen erklärt. Einen größeren … Anteil (ungefähr 13%) macht das Humankapital der höchstbezahlten Beschäftigten aus, die wir als Manager in der betreffenden … mit höherem Humankapital rekrutieren und diese binden. Insgesamt erklären Personalauswahl und Lohnaufschläge somit fast 30 …
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The Role of the Human Capital and Managerial Skills in Explaining the Productivity Gaps between East and West
Steffen, Wolfgang - 2009
This paper assess determinants of productivity gaps between firms in the European transition countries and regions and firms in West Germany. The analysis is conducted at the firm level by use of a unique database constructed by field work. The determinants tested in a simple econometric...
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The role of the corporation in society : an alternative view and opportunities for future research
Serafeim, George - 2014
A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the Global 1000, has opened the way for...
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Economic Consequences of Equity Compensation Disclosure
Bertomeu, Jeremy - 2011
The primary role of equity compensation is to provide incentives to an effort-averse agent. Here, we show that the chosen level of equity incentives, when publicly disclosed, will also convey information about future earnings, causing two-way linkages between incentive compensation and financial...
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Presidential Address : Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance
Hirshleifer, David A. - 2020
<p>I discuss a new intellectual paradigm, social economics and finance: the study of the social processes that shape economic thinking and behavior. This emerging field recognizes that people observe and talk to each other. A key, underexploited building block of social economics and finance is...</p>
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