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Democratization’s Risk Premium: Partisan and Opportunistic Political Business Cycle Effects on Sovereign Ratings in Developing Countries
(2003-02-01)
We use partisan and opportunistic political business cycle (“PBC”) considerations to develop a framework for explaining election-period decisions by credit rating agencies (“agencies”) publishing developing country sovereign ...
Financial Development and Technology
(2007-06-01)
Research in development economics reveals that the bulk of cross-country differences in economic growth is attributable to differences in productivity. By some accounts, productivity contributes to more than 60 percent of ...
Motivating Russian Workers: Analysis of Age and Gender Differences
(2002-02-01)
What motivates Russians to work? This paper utilizes survey data collected in May/June 2000 from 1200 employees in three regions of Russia to analyze the gender and generational differences in factors influencing motivation ...
“Supply Disruptions, Asymmetric Information, and a Dual Sourcing Option
(2008-09)
We study a manufacturer's strategic use of a dual-sourcing option when facing suppliers who possess private information about their likelihood of experiencing a supply disruption. The manufacturer can diversify its supply ...
Corporate elites and corporate strategy: how demographic preferences and structural position shape the scope of the firm
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-06)
This study combines elements of the upper echelons and agency perspectives to resolve some of the ambiguity surrounding how corporate elites affect corporate strategy. We propose and test the notion that while differences ...
A Review of Donaldson and Dunfee's Ties That Bind: A Social Contracts Approach to Business Ethics
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-12)
This article reviews Thomas Donaldson and Thomas Dunfee's new book Ties That Bind. The article argues that the book is a helpful elaboration of Donaldson and Dunfee's Integrative Social Contracts Approach, particularly ...
The Impact of Outward FDI on Home-Country Employment in a Low-Cost Transition Economy
(2007-05-01)
The current extensive literature on the home-country employment effect of FDI focuses almost exclusively on the case of investments from high-income and high labour cost home countries. In our paper we analyse the home-country ...
Productivity Growth and the Real Appreciation of the Accession Countries' Currencies
(2004-04-01)
In the process of catch-up growth the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland have experienced a transition to the production of higher-quality goods. We incorporate this effect in a theoretical model of exchange rates and ...