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In response to widespread dissatisfaction with the schools, the 1988 Chicago School Reform Act decentralized school governance by forming elected local school councils (LSCs) responsible for principal hiring, evaluation, and contract renewal as well as other management functions. Subsequent...
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We study the (lack of) anchoring of inflation expectations in New Zealand using a new survey of firms. Managers of … Reserve Bank of New Zealand, a fact which we document along a number of dimensions. Managers are unaware of the identities of …
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Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the equilibrium effect of higher wages in the presence of criminal pressure groups, who use both bribes and violence? By means of a regression discontinuity design, we show that an...
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While female CEOs are under-represented, the barriers they face in the business environment remain poorly understood. This study investigates the influence of gender bias in forming CEOs' business networks. Using transaction data of 1 million Japanese firms, we find that CEOs of the same gender...
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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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This paper presents theory and evidence on horizontal industry structure, focusing on situations where plant-level scale economies are small and market power is not an issue. At issue is the question: what makes industries necessarily fragmented? The theoretical model distinguishes between the...
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We employ a certainty-equivalence framework to analyze the cost and value of, and pay/performance incentives provided by, non-tradable options held by undiversified, risk-averse executives. We derive Executive Value' lines, the risk-adjusted analogues to Black-Scholes lines, and distinguish...
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This paper studies the gender compensation gap among high-level executives in US corporations. We use the ExecuComp data set that contains information on total compensation for the top five highest paid executives of a large group of US firms over the period 1992-1997. About 2.5% of the...
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objectives among not-for-profit hospitals. Boards appear to fire the managers that are least able to compete in the new … competitive environment and reward incumbent managers more for achieving for-profit goals. Consistent with donors' belief that …
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