We consider the current bipartite graph of German corporate boards and identify a small core of directors who are highly central in the entire network while being densely connected among themselves. To identify the core, we compare the actual number of board memberships to a random benchmark, focusing on deviations from the benchmark that span several orders of magnitude. It seems that the boar...

This article draws on the ‘double indeterminacy of labour power’, a key conceptual development in process theory, to examine mobility power Saudi Arabia. State control over migrant workers is crucial and wider political-economy However, little known about mobility–effort bargaining specific forms context. argues that not only at core capital–labour relations Arabia, but effort are variably cont...

The capital market is a place where companies seek funds to finance their business activities. In addition, the also an effort raise public directly by investing into healthy and well-managed companies. main function of as means formation accumulation for financing company/issuer. presence institutions in Indonesia adds row alternatives people who have excess are interested invest funds. capita...

We consider the combined impact of agency problems and behavioural factors on venture capital/entrepreneur contracting and performance. Particularly, we develop a behavioural game-theoretic model in which a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur negotiate over their respective equity shares, and then exert value-adding efforts in running the business. Double-sided moral hazard exists in that bo...

BACKGROUND Occupational stress is an important risk factor for mental health among occupational population. Exploring related mediators of workers' mental health are important to improve their health and performance. Our study aims to explore the relationships between work stress, positive psychological resources, burnout and well-being. METHODS The study was performed during the period of Ju...

BACKGROUND Colombia is a lower-middle income country that faces the challenge of addressing health inequalities. This effort includes the task of developing measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) to describe and analyse disparities in health and health related outcomes. This study explores the use of a multidimensional approach to SEP, in which socioeconomic inequalities in contraceptive use ...

In this paper, we walk in the footsteps of the stimulating paper by Lee Breslau and Scott Shenker entitled “Best-effort vs. Reservations: A Simple Comparative Analysis”[1]. In fact, we finally follow their invitation to use their models as a starting point and extend them to reason about the very basic but still very much debated architectural issue whether quality of service (QoS) mechanisms l...

BACKGROUND Prior studies on social capital and health have assessed social capital in residential neighbourhoods and communities, but the question whether the concept should also be applicable in workplaces has been raised. The present study reports on the psychometric properties of an 8-item measure of social capital at work. METHODS Data were derived from the Finnish Public Sector Study (N ...

We consider a model in which banking is characterized by asset substitution moral hazard and managerial under-provision of effort in loan monitoring. The privately-optimal bank leverage efficiently balances the benefit of debt in providing the discipline to ensure that the bank monitors its loans against the benefit of equity in attenuating asset-substitution moral hazard. However, when correla...