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Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms

Caselli, Francesco - 2007

firms (entrepreneurship) and the average quality of management (meritocracy). Legal reform also reduces financial … constraints on entry, but in addition it facilitates transfers of control of incumbent firms, from untalented to talented managers … improve meritocracy at the expense of entrepreneurship. As a result, legal reform encounters less political opposition than …

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The American Business Elite in Historical Perspective

Temin, Peter - 1997

This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported the composition of business leaders a century ago. I have" drawn a sample of business leaders today to discover how much the composition of the" American business elite has...

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The Stability of the American Business Elite

Temin, Peter - 1998

that this demographic group makes the best business managers. I suggest that this in turn is not because they are …

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CEO-Firm Matches and Productivity in 42 Countries

Dahlstrand, Amanda; László, Dávid; Schweiger, Helena; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

to differentiate CEOs into "leaders" and "managers" in a survey of 4,800 manufacturing firms across 42 countries, with …

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The Effects of Digital Surveillance and Managerial Clarity on Performance

Kala, Namrata; Lyons, Elizabeth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

How managers frame the adoption of organizational practices may impact the returns to such practices, but managerial …

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Toward an Understanding of Discrimination When Multiple Channels Exist

Ahmadi, Majid; Clochard, Gwen-Jirō; Lachman, Jeff; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

When multiple forces potentially underlie discriminatory behavior, pinning down the precise sources becomes a challenge, making proposed policy solutions speculative. This study introduces an empirical approach, tightly linked to theory, to dissect two specific channels of discrimination:...

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Non-Profit Hospital Governance, Conduct, and CEO Pay

Kessler, Daniel P.; Wygal, William - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate whether two characteristics of non-profit hospital boards - the number of board members and whether the CEO is a board member - are associated with CEO pay and several measures of hospital performance, including price, operating margin, quality, and service to low-income patients....

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Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?

Niederle, Muriel - 2005

Competitive high ranking positions are largely occupied by men, and women remain scarce in engineering and sciences. Explanations for these occupational differences focus on discrimination and preferences for work hours and field of study. We examine if absent these factors gender differences in...

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Managerial Skill Acquisition and the Theory of Economic Development

Beaudry, Paul - 2005

possibilities are internalized in the market, and where managers are complementary inputs to non-managerial workers. The paper … illustrates why some countries may adopt modern technologies while others stay backwards. The paper also explains why managers may …

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The Growth of Executive Pay

Bebchuk, Lucian - 2005

This paper examines both empirically and theoretically the growth of U.S. executive pay during the period 1993-2003. During this period, pay has grown much beyond the increase that could be explained by changes in firm size, performance and industry classification. Had the relationship of...

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