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Supervision, Loss of Control, and the Optimum Size of the Firm

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  1. Rolf Bühner & Jörg Digmayer, 2003. "Aktienmarktreaktionen auf die Ankündigungen von Spin-offs und Sell-offs," Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, Springer, vol. 55(7), pages 657-677, November.
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  5. Michal Fabinger & E. Glen Weyl, 2018. "Functional Forms for Tractable Economic Models and the Cost Structure of International Trade," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-1092, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
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  9. Johannes Ludsteck, 2014. "Exploiting Regional Heterogeneity to Test Wage Setting Theories - Firm Size Wage Effects in Urban and Rural Regions," ERSA conference papers ersa14p374, European Regional Science Association.
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  12. Dickinson, David & Villeval, Marie-Claire, 2008. "Does monitoring decrease work effort?: The complementarity between agency and crowding-out theories," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 63(1), pages 56-76, May.
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  45. Gabriele Cardullo & Luca Beltrametti, 2025. "Monitoring and prudence," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 146(2), pages 221-235, October.
  46. Arai, Mahmood, 1997. "Economics of personnel : Edward P. Lazear, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995) pp. 170, ISBN 0-262-12188-3, [UK pound] 19.95 (cloth)," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 419-423, December.
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  48. Giuseppe Lanza & Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti & Pietro Navarra, 2020. "Can Citizens Affect the Performance of Their Elected Representatives? A Principal–Agent Model of Strategic Interaction in Democratic Systems," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(7), pages 1-14, July.
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  51. John McLaren, 2000. ""Globalization" and Vertical Structure," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 90(5), pages 1239-1254, December.
  52. Busso, Matias & Chauvin, Juan Pablo & Herrera L., Nicolás, 2021. "Rural-urban migration at high urbanization levels," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
  53. Tobias Hiller, 2021. "Hierarchy and the size of a firm," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 68(3), pages 389-404, September.
  54. Santiago Bonilla & Sašo Polanec, 2024. "The impact of foreign demand shocks on organisational hierarchies," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(4), pages 1741-1767, April.
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  56. Jérôme Mathis & Marcello Puca & Simone M. Sepe, 2021. "Deliberative Institutions and Optimality," CSEF Working Papers 614, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy, revised 09 Jun 2021.
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