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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"managerial ability"”.
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Asymmetry In Operational Efficiency and Managerial Ability Benchmarks
… models of operating efficiency (OE) and managerial ability (MA) assume a symmetric linear relation of OE and MA with firm performance. However, OE and MA metrics are likely to respond faster to a demand decrease than a demand increase due to cost stickiness and respond faster to negative …
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Managerial ability and the valuation of executive stock options
… price takers. That is, they have no ability to influence the outcomes of the firm’s investments. Clearly, executives do have the ability to influence these outcomes, because that is the purpose of granting them the options. In this paper, we develop a model in which managers can exert …
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Individual Differences in Entrepreneurial and Managerial Ability Among Illinois Farm Operators
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Acquisition performance: The effect of the extent and speed of integration, and the contribution of the acquired units' top management
… greater knowledge, relationships, leadership ability and managerial ability than those in units with low preacquisition performance. In units with high preacquisition performance the retained top managers' relationships, leadership ability and managerial ability were perceived to make greater …
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Essays in delegated portfolio management
… because of her superior but privately known ability. To tell managerial types apart, investors design compensation contracts that allow them to screen between managers of different abilities. We demonstrate that such a separation is possible in equilibrium when the proposed form of investment …
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Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection of Executive Compensation
… on the relative weights placed on signals of ability and on performance measures in executive compensation. Furthermore, I also investigate the determinants on the compensation of university presidents. I find that that more weight is placed on signals of ability in R&D intensive firms and …
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Essays in efficiency and productivity analysis under technology heterogeneity regimes
… among the ownership scheme of the firm, the managerial ability, the size of the firm, the technology the production entity has access to among others. The latter could be further attributed to resource endowments, productivity differentials, regulations over the production process and past …
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Essays in financial economics
… cut/omission than for an initiation; and a probability of dividend initiation that is increasing in the firm's profitability and assets in place, and decreasing in the personal tax rate on dividends relative to capital gains. The model also generates additional novel predictions: (i) the …
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Studies of talent markets
… revealed on the job and publicly. Individual inability to commit to long-term contracts leaves firms with insufficient incentives to hire novices, inducing them to bid excessively for the pool of revealed talent instead. This causes the market to be plagued with too many mediocre workers, …
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Labour Investment: A Managers’ Decision-Making Perspective
… In my second study, I investigate whether higher ability managers achieve better performance outcomes through labour investment. I document that deviations from expected net hiring are, on average, smaller for higher ability managers. In this regard, I find that higher ability managers avoid both …
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Essays On The Effects Of Asymmetric Information
… types: they are heterogeneous over levels of ability and risk aversion. The managers have private information about their ability. In this context, a two-dimensional solution set of levels of ability and risk aversion corresponding to each possible mean of cash flow realization is identified. …
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An analysis of labour supply and productivity in the oil palm industry : a case study of the Cape Hoskins Settlement Scheme, Papua New Guinea
… is made of data from a comprehensive labour availability and utilisation study of a sample of 23 settlers^ from Kapore, the first sub-division established in Hoskins. The objectives of the study are: (i)to examine the settlers actual labour utilisation patterns; (ii) to test the explicit and …
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An analysis of labour supply and productivity in the oil palm industry : a case study of the Cape Hoskins Settlement Scheme, Papua New Guinea
… is made of data from a comprehensive labour availability and utilisation study of a sample of 23 settlers^ from Kapore, the first sub-division established in Hoskins. The objectives of the study are: (i)to examine the settlers actual labour utilisation patterns; (ii) to test the explicit and …