Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 649
Cover Image
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers
Lim, Jongha - 2013
managers. Flows respond quickly and strongly to performance; lagged performance has a monotonically decreasing impact on flows … times as large as direct incentives from incentive fees and returns to managers' own investment in the fund. For new funds … generated for their investors in a given year, managers receive close to another dollar in direct performance fees plus the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459758
Cover Image
The Tenuous Tradeoff Between Risk and Incentives
Prendergast, Canice - 2000
Empirical work testing for a negative tradeoff between risk and incentives, a cornerstone of agency theory, has not had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470935
Cover Image
Risk and the CEO Market : Why Do Some Large Firms Hire Highly-Paid, Low-Talent CEOs?
Edmans, Alex - 2010
This paper presents a market equilibrium model of CEO assignment, pay and incentives under risk aversion and heterogeneous moral hazard. Each of the three outcomes can be summarized by a single closed-form equation. In assignment models without moral hazard, allocation depends only on firm size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462666
Cover Image
The Other Side of the Tradeoff : The Impact of Risk on Executive Compensation
Aggarwal, Rajesh - 1998
The principal-agent model of executive compensation is of central importance to the modern theory of the firm and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472176
Cover Image
Fund Managers, Career Concerns, and Asset Price Volatility
Guerrieri, Veronica - 2009
We propose a model where investors hire fund managers to invest either in risky bonds or in riskless assets. Some … managers have superior information on the default probability. Looking at the past performance, investors update beliefs on … their managers and make firing decisions. This leads to career concerns which affect investment decisions, generating a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463750
Cover Image
Execution Risk
Engle, Robert - 2006
Transaction costs in trading involve both risk and return. The return is associated with the cost of immediate execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between risk and return in optimal execution should reflect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466529
Cover Image
Tips and Tells from Managers : How Analysts and the Market Read Between the Lines of Conference Calls
Druz, Marina - 2015
Stock prices react significantly to the tone (negativity of words) managers use on earnings conference calls. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457675
Cover Image
CEO Investment Cycles
Pan, Yihui - 2013
This paper documents the existence of a CEO Investment Cycle, in which firms disinvest early in a CEO's tenure and increase investment subsequently, leading to "cyclical" firm growth in assets as well as in employment over CEO tenure. The CEO investment cycle occurs for both firings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459331
Cover Image
War and Relatedness
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463555
Cover Image
Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk
Chassang, Sylvain - 2008
We examine the mechanics of deterrence and intervention when fear is a motive for conflict. We contrast results obtained in a complete information setting, where coordination is easy, to those obtained in a setting with strategic risk, where players have different assessments of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464685