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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Career Concerns"”.
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Essays in empirical law and economics/
… asylum cases. The second chapter studies whether career concerns influence judicial decision-making within the context of asylum adjudication in immigration courts. The final chapter investigates how expansions in the right to counsel impacted criminal defendants, with particular focus on the …
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The influence of teacher salary, attrition patterns and relationship building in primary schools on the perspectives of University students in Malta
… alone is not enough to sustain a long-term career. Concerns emerged around inadequate salaries, high early-career attrition, elevated stress level, and insufficient systemic support, factors that shape professional identity and career trajectories. Despite these challenges, students …
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Herding by South African Equity Unit Trusts: An analysis of the causes and extent of herding behaviour on the JSE Limited
… evidence that unit trust managers' reputational/career concerns, as well as informational incentives contributes to unit trust herding in shares, with aggregate herding 19% more prevalent in down markets than in up markets, 36% more in low relative to high market return states, 12% more prevalent …
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Thinking Globally, Writing Locally: Re-Visioning Critical And Service Learning Pedagogies With Globalization Theory
… that it opposes students' pragmatic views and career concerns, effects student resistance in the classroom, devalues students' personal experiences, and stigmatizes white students (particularly white males). Within service learning, scholars point to numerous problems as well: It can create a …
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The career maturity of graduate students identified as enhancers or changers
… the role of education in relation to the career development of the more mature graduate student who is a member of both the educational and the work community. The primary purpose of this study was to determine if graduate students were mature in their career development and whether there …
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Developing purpose as a psychosocial task related to college students' perceived tendency to seek help from counseling centers
… center for a variety of personal and vocational concerns. Chickering's (1969) theory of college student development provided the theoretical basis for this study. The association between students' sex, educational status and type of problem, and their tendency to seek help was also investigated. …
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Essays on information and incentives
… with Botond Koszegi, in which we consider a career concerns model in which an agent's productivity has two components: talent and responsiveness to incentives. We use the term "drive" to reflect people's different responsiveness to incentives, and show that the extra dimension of …
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Interrelationship between insider trading and managerial attributes
… implicating that other than compensation and career concerns, insiders hoard bad news to fulfil their trading incentives while the positive coefficients of insider sales suggest insiders can assess and anticipate the future crash risk. The research further documents that the presence of female …
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Essays on Political Institutions and Institutional Design
… studies a committee decision-making problem with career oriented agents who may be biased towards one of the alternatives. We investigate how the interaction between career concerns and bias affects the behavior of members and how this effect depends on transparency. The main result is that public …
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Empirical Studies in Asset Management
… whether within-firm connections alter manager career concerns and if investment distinctiveness, employee risk-taking and fund performance are affected. I measure connectedness using a dataset of within-firm networks based on 13,357 mutual fund managers across 26 years. Well-connected managers …
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Rationales Herdenverhalten - Theorie, Empirie und Lösungsansätze
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird rationales Herdenverhalten anhand der Informationskaskadenmodelle sowie der Reputationsmodelle (Prinzipal-Agent-Kontext bei Existenz relativer Leistungsbewertung) analysiert. Im Bereich der Theorie wird die Frage beantwortet, welche Annahmen unverzichtbar sind für das …
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Incentives and Forest Reform: Evidence from China
… such as forests. In this paper, we identify career concerns by managers of state-owned enterprises that manage natural resources, and asymmetric information between managers and their superiors regarding the enterprises' environmental performance, as sources of environmental degradation. A …
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Investment manager trading behaviour and fund performance
… gaming trades, which may be as a result of career concerns and business risk management. New investors in funds would benefit substantially by delaying their entry to the fund until the day after the end of the quarter, as there is a lower entry price into the fund. However, portfolio …
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Empirical studies in public economics in developing countries
… is consistent with a moral hazard model where career concerns persuade politicians to improve performance. The electoral cycle in policy is generated by high discounting of the future in an uncertain political environment. The pattern suggests that state governments strategically manipulate …
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Essays on corporate governance and executive compensation
… Outside blockholders may not fear the same career concerns. Using a novel approach, I sepa- rate blockholders into insiders (officers & directors) and outsiders when considering their relationship to CEO power, which is proxied by the CEO Pay Slice (CPS). However, separating blockholders …
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Stress Management and Health Promotion Behaviours in Young Men in Tertiary Education Settings
… among stress and specificity of academic concerns amongst tertiary males. The current study sought to elucidate what were the particular avenues of concern which resulted in high levels of stress amongst these young men. Moreover, in order to extrapolate information on how best to address …