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Social Exchange and Common Agency in Organizations

Dur, Robert - 2007

We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate a manager's attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...

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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown

Daveri, Francesco - 2010

innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type …

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Incentives, Reputation and the Allocation of Authority

Englmaier, Florian - 2010

We address the question how much authority a principal should delegate to a manager with conflicting interests and uncertain ability in a context in which the manager has both compensation-based and reputational incentives. The optimal level of authority balances the value of the manager's...

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Top of the Class : The Importance of Ordinal Rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...

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Delegation and Interim Performance Evaluation

Schuette, Miriam - 2013

This paper considers the effects of an interim performance evaluation on the decision of a principal to delegate …

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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?

Babalos, Vassilis; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

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A Simple Four Quadrants Model to Monitor the Performance of Local Governments

Ballanti, Danilo; Dispotico, Roberto; Porcelli, Francesco; … - CESifo - 2014

evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …

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Why do Foreign Banks Withdraw from other Countries? A Panel Data Analysis

Hryckiewicz, Aneta; Kowalewski, Oskar - CESifo - 2010

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms

Hjort, Jonas - CESifo - 2013

A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...

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Urban Shrinkage in Eastern Germany

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina - CESifo - 2015

This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...

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