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We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the staggered entry of new managers into India’s 42 public R&D labs between 1994 and 2006 to study how alignment between the CEO and middle-level managers a˙ect research productivity. We show that the introduction of new lab managers aligned with th...
Keywords: incentives, innovation, management, productivity, research and development
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We model a market in which traders lay off their excess inventories of an asset in a sequence of size-discovery sessions and on a continuously operating exchange. Taking the exchange as given, we derive a size-discovery mechanism that efficiently reallocates the asset across traders at each session...
Keywords: mechanism design, price impact, size discovery, allocative efficiency, workup, dark pool, market design
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We examine business cycle divergence and risk-sharing channels within the United States as a whole and in U.S. ‘regions’ whose populations have voted consistently Democrat (Blue) or Republican (Red) in national elections. We find: (1) state busi-ness cycle divergence exceeds international diver...
Keywords: monetary union, consumption risk-sharing, economic and political di-vergence
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Directors are more likely to obtain additional directorships or be promoted if the CEO and peer directors of their current board are well-connected. The impact of CEO and peer director connections is stronger for additional appointments and promotions at firms in the CEO’s and peer directors’ ne...
Keywords: board of directors, network connections, director labor market, CEO rolodex
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We examine which firms are targets of cyberattacks and how they are affected. We find that cyberattacks cause firms to reassess the risks that they are exposed to and their consequences, so that they have real effects on firm policies even when targets are not financially constrained. Cyberattacks a...
Keywords: Cyber risk, Cyberattack, Hacking, Risk management, Firm Value, Leverage, Compensation policy
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