Do Relationships Matter? Evidence from Loan Officer Turnover

We show that the cost of employee turnover in firms that rely on decentralized knowledge and personal relationships depends on the firms' planning horizons and the departing employees' incentives to transfer information. Using exogenous shocks to the relationship between borrowers and loan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Drexler, Alejandro, Schoar, Antoinette
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90481
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3658-9131