We use novel data from a leading online job search platform to examine the impact of corporate distress on firms’ ability to attract job applicants. Survey responses suggest that job seekers accurately perceive firms’ financial condition, as measured by companies’ credit default swap prices and accounting data. Analyzing responses to job postings by major financial firms during [...]
Many firms issue stock options to all employees. We consider three potential economic justifications for this practice: providing incentives to employees, inducing employees to sort, and helping firms retain employees. We gather data on firms' stock option grants to middle managers from three distinct sources, and use two methods to assess which theories appear to explain observed [...]
Many firms issue stock options to all employees. We consider three potential economic justifications for this practice: providing incentives to employees, inducing employees to sort, and helping firms retain employees. We gather data on firms' stock option grants to middle managers from three distinct sources, and use two methods to assess which theories appear to explain observed [...]
[Original air date: May 29, 2020] State Government's Leadership Role in Utah's Economic Recovery and Business Success View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Mike Leavitt Former U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary; Former Utah Governor [...]
[Original air date: May 22, 2020] Key Insights that Matter Most to Short- and Long-Term Planning View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Mike Leavitt Former U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary; Former Utah Governor [...]
Ravideep Sethi, and WonSeok Yoo, 2020. Constructing a model in which two groups of individuals are engaged in alternate offer bargaining, the authors find that, counter to common intuition, the smaller a group is, the more it is able to extract in bargaining. This implies that dictatorships have an innate advantage in bargaining against democracies. [download pdf]
[Original air date: May 15, 2020] Schools & Sports — When and How Do Large Groups Return? View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Mike Leavitt Former U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary; Former Utah Governor [...]
[Original air date: May 8, 2020] Building Confidence in the Next Phase of Recovery View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Mike Leavitt Former U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary; Former Utah Governor Speaker: Jesse Graham, [...]
[Original air date: May 5, 2020] The Construction Industry: How to Build Your Way Back View Recording View PowerPoint View Colliers Back-to-Business Primer Moderator: Natalie Gochnour Associate Dean at the David Eccles School of Business; Director of the Kem [...]
[Original air date: May 1, 2020] The COVID-19 Economic Tsunami: A Business Forecast You Can Use View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Mike Leavitt Former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary; Former Utah Governor; President and CEO, Leavitt Partners [...]