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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the Americas and East Asia in the past two centuries. Between 1830 and 1945, labor-abundant Britain, the most advanced country, traded heavily with land-abundant countries in the...

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Performance Incentives, Performance Pressure and Executive Turnover

Subramanian, Narayanan; Chakraborty, Atreya; Sheikh, Shahbaz - EconWPA - 2002

We examine the relationship between the optimal incentive contract and the firm’s decision to fire a manager for poor performance. We first derive some theoretical results using a simple principal-agent model, and then examine the empirical evidence on the incidence of forced turnover among...

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Golden parachutes: Credible commitments or evidence of shirking?

Falaschetti, Dino - EconWPA - 2003

External agents are frequently characterized as necessary for efficiency in team production settings. At the same time, these agents must be constrained from opportunistically exercising their enforcement capabilities. I argue that collective action costs and formal institutions (e.g., golden...

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What’s Common to Relationship Banking and Relationship Investing? Reflections within the Contractual Theory of the Firm

Neuberger, Doris - EconWPA - 2005

The financial systems in continental Europe are subject to profound changes in the institutions of market exchange. Banks traditionally holding close relationships with firms are substituted by non-bank institutional investors. The present paper examines whether this implies a substitution of...

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What’s Common to Relationship Banking and Relationship Investing? Reflections within the Contractual Theory of the Firm

Neuberger, Doris - EconWPA - 2005

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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005

infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with …

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MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES

SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004

Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches …

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will … the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred estimator combines high and low …

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Towards Building A New Consensus About New Zealand’s Productivity

Razzak, W A - EconWPA - 2004

There is a wide consensus that New Zealand’s productivity has been poor despite the comprehensive market …-oriented reforms of the 1980’s. This consensus is based on estimates of New Zealand’s productivity growth measured either in terms of … GDP per capita or total factor productivity (TFP). TFP is typically computed using growth accounting (i.e., calibrating a …

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT : MATHEMATICAL MODELS BY DR.VSRS

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

practical solutions. Algebraic Model with a broad based Redefined Productivity Model and Management Decision integrated with …

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