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In this paper, we combine the strategic delegation approach of Fershtman-Judd-Sklivas with contets. The results show that besides a symmetric equilibrium there also exist asymmetric equilibria in which one owner induces pure sales maximization to his manager so that all the other firms drop out...
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substitutability than it really has. This is so either because managers are biased and perceive the good in this way, or because firms …
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In this paper, we combine the strategic delegation approach of Fershtman-Judd-Sklivas with contests. The results show that besides a symmetric equilibrium there also exist asymmetric equilibria in which one owner induces pure sales maximization to his manager so that all the other firms drop out...
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responsibility (ECSR). We consider a mixed oligopoly under cross-ownership between the private firms and compare three cases of … find that private managers always undertake ECSR, whereas public managers do so when there is severe environmental damage …. We also find that the ECSR incentives for welfare-weighted public managers are always lower than for their profit …
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Relative performance evaluation (“RPE”) is a useful tool for shielding risk averse agents from systematic uncertainty. However, RPE can also destroy firm value by encouraging executives to implement excessively aggressive product market strategies to improve their relative standing through...
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no longer innocuous, because two firms can share unique shocks not shared by another, or all other firms, in an oligopoly …
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assign a non-profit-maximization objective to their managers. Consequently, managers in a delegation game invest more in cost …
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still benefits from the increase in the merged firm's total value. Moreover, given that the managers are compensated … according to an identical linear incentive scheme, the optimal shareholder policy always entails a corner solution. Managers …
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assign a non-profit-maximization objective to their managers. Consequently, managers in a delegation game invest more in cost …
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combination of profits and sales as incentives for their managers. On the second stage, the two managers compete in a tournament …This paper considers a two-stage game with two owners and two managers. On the first stage, the owners choose a linear … against each other. In a symmetric equilibrium, both owners induce their managers to maximize profits. In asymmetric …
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