Many countries have developed strategies to attract and retain qualified health workers in underserved areas, but there is only scarce and weak evidence on their successes or failures. It is difficult to compare lessons and measure results from the few evaluations that are available. Evaluation...

We use and extend resource-dependence theory by analyzing how loosely-coupled organizational structures facilitate the management of political ties by business groups in emerging economies. This topic is particularly salient because business groups are a prevalent organizational form in these...

Institutions are vital for solving collective action problems and enabling functioning markets. Based on this notion, the institutional voids literature has offered a dynamic research agenda for international business scholarship. In this perspective article, we leverage work from political...

Why do family businesses exist? What factors explain their versatility, limitations and success within and across different industrial and geographic contexts? We develop a transaction-cost framework that addresses these questions. In doing so, we identify a class of asset we term generic...

We propose a new approach to density forecast optimisation and apply it to Value-at-Risk estimation. All existing density forecasting models try to optimise the distribution of the returns based solely on the predicted density at the observation. In this paper we argue that probabilistic...