Personnel economics: Hiring and incentives

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 [...]

2021-02-16T12:50:16-07:00July 2nd, 2020|

Rethinking Strength in Numbers: Bilateral Bargaining in Groups

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]

2023-09-27T11:58:28-06:00May 19th, 2020|

The Construction Industry: How to Build Your Way Back

[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 [...]

2020-06-02T19:56:26-06:00May 5th, 2020|

Adjusting and Planning for the New Normal

[Original air date: April 24, 2020] Adjusting and Planning for the New Normal View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Mike Leavitt Former U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services; Former Utah Governor This urgent and compelling [...]

2020-06-02T19:36:00-06:00April 24th, 2020|