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low prices. Avoiding winners with prior bad performance is the most important feature. Officials avoid very low …
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This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...
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' leadership styles on employees' performance, work style, and mental well-being in times of crisis. Using longitudinal … performance and mental well-being during the pandemic. …
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This paper develops a machine-learning method that allows researchers to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects with panel data in a setting with many covariates. Our method, which we name the dynamic causal forest (DCF) method, extends the causal-forest method of Wager and Athey (2018) by...
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In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organisations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large to small firms. Our model identifies the economic forces behind this trend. Small firms with little capital at risk are subject to risk-shifting. They realize more of their...
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A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1 …,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we … control for various human capital and other factors that might affect both performance and credit scoring outcomes. We use a …
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informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low … section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger drop in performance between the high and low stakes examinations than … females, and Whites exhibit a larger drop in performance compared to minorities. Differences between high and low stakes tests …
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This paper carries out style analysis for Russian mutual funds using monthly data from the National Managers' Association over the period January 2008-December 2017; specifically, it applies the RSBA method developed by Sharpe (1992) for evaluating the impact of style on returns, and uses the Style...
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evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …
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