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determines how changes in trade frictions affect allocative efficiency in an oligopoly model of international trade, decomposing …
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and exit decisions in a dynamic oligopoly model (a la Bajari et al (2007)) and use it to analyse redesign activity in the …
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Empirical work testing for a negative tradeoff between risk and incentives, a cornerstone of agency theory, has not had …
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This paper presents a market equilibrium model of CEO assignment, pay and incentives under risk aversion and heterogeneous moral hazard. Each of the three outcomes can be summarized by a single closed-form equation. In assignment models without moral hazard, allocation depends only on firm size...
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The principal-agent model of executive compensation is of central importance to the modern theory of the firm and …
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We propose a general equilibrium economy with oligopolistic output markets in which two channels can cause a change in market power: (i) technology, via changes to productivity shocks and the cost of entry, (ii) market structure, via changes to the number of potential competitors. First, we...
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general equilibrium model with a hedonic demand system in which firms compete in a network game of oligopoly. Firms are …
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Traditionally, fund managers cast votes on behalf of investors whose capital they manage. Recently, this system has … come under intense debate given the growing concentration of voting power among a few asset managers and disagreements over … environmental and social issues. Major fund managers now offer their investors a choice: delegate their votes to the fund or cast …
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constraints on entry, but in addition it facilitates transfers of control of incumbent firms, from untalented to talented managers …
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Transaction costs in trading involve both risk and return. The return is associated with the cost of immediate execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between risk and return in optimal execution should reflect the...
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