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Keyword: compensation


Heads I Win, Tails You Lose - Painless Risk Taking (8/31/1999)

The heated stock market for high-tech startups has spawned many newly rich through riskless stock options.

Keywords: compensation, defection, FASB, lottery, repricing, risk, salaries, salary, start ups, startups, stock options, talent, tax deduction, turnover

Spillovers Are Not Always Externalities (6/22/2006)

External costs or benefits exist only if property rights have not been clearly defined and/or when the negotiation or enforcement cost exceeds damage.

Keywords: airport, compensation, externality, golf course, internalize, property rights, shopping malls, spillovers

What Makes Rights? (12/21/2001)

Temporary property rights created out of sympathy or a preference for insiders over outsiders might become politically entrenched.

Keywords: assistance, capitalization, Coke, compensation, delayed adjustment, disaster, factoring, lobby, Pepsi, presumed right, property right, steel, swing states, swing vote, sympathy, trade protection, vested interests