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Biased Managers as Strategic Commitment

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  • Englmaier, Florian
  • Reisinger, Markus

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This paper analyzes a model in which owners of competing firms can hire biased managers for strategic reasons. We show that independent of the mode of competition, that is, price or quantities, owners hire aggressive managers. This result contrasts with the classic literature on strategic delegation. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Englmaier, Florian & Reisinger, Markus, 2014. "Biased Managers as Strategic Commitment," Munich Reprints in Economics 22009, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:lmu:muenar:22009
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    3. Elizabeth Schroeder & Carol Horton Tremblay & Victor J. Tremblay, 2022. "CEO Bias and Product Substitutability in Oligopoly Games," Games, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-23, March.
    4. Aristotelis Boukouras, 2015. "Separation of Ownership and Control: Delegation as a Commitment Device," Discussion Papers in Economics 15/02, Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester.
    5. Andres Espitia, 2024. "Confidence and Organizations," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2024_521, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
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    9. Jean‐Baptiste Tondji, 2022. "Overconfidence and welfare in a differentiated duopoly," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 43(3), pages 751-767, April.
    10. Nicola Meccheri, 2021. "Biased managers in vertically related markets," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 42(3), pages 724-736, April.
    11. Nicola Meccheri, 2019. "Biased managers in a vertical structure," Working Paper series 19-12, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.
    12. Kangsik Choi & DongJoon Lee & Ki‐Dong Lee, 2023. "Biased managers with network externalities," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 70(3), pages 201-216, July.
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    15. Luis Santos-Pinto & Tiago Pires, 2020. "Overconfidence and Timing of Entry," Games, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-19, October.

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