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Using responses obtained through the Nielsen Homescan panel survey, we explore the differences between managers' and … non-managers' expectations and perceptions of inflation and unemployment. By and large, managers and non-managers exhibit … information provided in a randomized control trial. Finally, the inflation expectations of managers deviate systematically from …
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We investigate the relationship between CEO centrality -- the relative importance of the CEO within the top executive team in terms of ability, contribution, or power -- and the value and behavior of public firms. Our proxy for CEO centrality is the fraction of the top-five compensation captured...
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While prior empirical work and much public attention have focused on the opportunistic timing of executives' grants, we provide in this paper evidence that outside directors' option grants have also been favorably timed to an extent that cannot be fully explained by sheer luck. Examining events...
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We study the relation between corporate governance and opportunistic timing of CEO option grants via backdating or otherwise. Our methodology focuses on how grant date prices rank within the price distribution of the grant month. During 1996-2005, about 12% of firms provided one or more lucky...
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Because public firms are not required to disclose the monetary value of pension plans in their executive pay disclosures, financial economists have generally analyzed executive pay using figures that do not include the value of such pension plans. This paper presents evidence that omitting the...
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instrument for addressing the agency problem between managers and shareholders but also as part of the agency problem itself … managers. As a result, managers wield substantial influence over their own pay arrangements, and they have an interest in … reducing the saliency of the amount of their pay and the extent to which that pay is de-coupled from managers' performance. We …
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constraints that act on these processes, leave managers with considerable power to shape their own pay arrangements. Examining the …
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This paper develops an account of the role and significance of rent extraction in executive compensation. Under the optimal contracting view of executive compensation, which has dominated academic research on the subject, pay arrangements are set by a board of directors that aims to maximize...
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We study the (lack of) anchoring of inflation expectations in New Zealand using a new survey of firms. Managers of … Reserve Bank of New Zealand, a fact which we document along a number of dimensions. Managers are unaware of the identities of …
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"anchored" expectations, the inflation expectations of U.S. managers appear far from anchored, much like those of households …. And like households, U.S. managers are largely uninformed about recent aggregate inflation dynamics or monetary policy …
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