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always decrease the agency cost, it can have the adverse effect of weakening the principal's commitment not to renegotiate …
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A basic model of commitment is to convert a two-player game in strategic form to a “leadership game” with the same …
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implement the commitment solution with constraints on transfers. Second, absent current competition, the possibility of future …
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business strategies. Without government commitment, there is an additional basis for intervention, whose sign depends on the …
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. In a natural experiment, we study the gender difference in performance resulting from changes in stakes. We use detailed … information on the performance of high-school students and exploit the variation in the stakes of tests, which range from 5% to 27 …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …
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to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …
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We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes …
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In this study we examine whether a workplace can induce good or bad attitudes among its employees and whether any such ¿workplace attitudes¿ affect economic outcomes. This study analyzes responses of thousands of employees working in nearly two hundred branches to the emp loyee opinion survey...
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the hypothesis that ownership-specific advantages are a major determinant of performance differences. This paper explores … performance issues using the eclectic paradigm configuration of hotel and hospitality multinationals (NACE=55), operating in …
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