Title:Dynamic Labor Demand in China: Public and private objectives
Author(s):COOPER, Russell; GONG, Guan; YAN, PingDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:NBER Working PaperAbstract:This paper studies dynamic labor demand of private and state-controlled manufacturing plants in China. A goal of the paper is to characterize adjustment costs for these plants. As our sample includes private and state-controlled ...
Title:Dynamics of Performance-Measurement Systems
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, GeraldDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We review the principalagent multi-tasking literature and discuss the relevance of this literature to the implementation of performance measurement in public organizations. Arguably, the most important lesson from the ...
Title:Early News Is Good News: the Effects of Market Opening on Market Volatility
Author(s):GALLO, Giampiero M.; PACINI, BarbaraDate:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we examine the characteristics of market opening news and its impact on the estimated coefficients of the conditional volatility models of the GARCH class. We find that the differences between the opening ...
Title:Early Retirement
Author(s):CONDE-RUIZ, Jose Ignacio; GALASSO, VincenzoDate:2000Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO