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Optimal Delegation when the Large Shareholder has Multiple Tasks

Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - CESifo - 2010

We analyze the optimal ownership, delegation and compensation structures when a manager is hired to run a firm and to gather information on investment projects. The initial owner has two tasks: monitoring the manager and supervising project choice. Optimality would require a large ownership...

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Ownership Concentration, Monitoring and Optimal Board Structure

Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - CESifo - 2005

The paper analyzes the optimal structure of the board of directors in a firm with a large shareholder sitting on the board. In a one-tier structure the sole board performs all tasks, while in a two-tier structure the management board is in charge of project selection and the supervisory board is...

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Voting in Corporate Boards with Heterogeneous Preferences

Balduzzi, Paolo; Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - CESifo - 2011

We analyze the voting behavior of a board of directors that has to approve (or reject) an investment proposal with uncertain return. We consider three types of directors: insiders, who are biased toward acceptance of the project, independent outsiders who want to maximize the firm’s profit and...

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Illegal Trade in the Iranian Economy: Evidence from a Structural Model

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - CESifo - 2008

index of smuggling in Iran from 1970 to 2002. The Multiple Indicators - Multiple Causes (MIMIC) econometric modelling is … incentives for illegal trade. More trade openness accompanies more illegal trade for the case of Iran. On average, the relative … size of smuggling is about 13% of the total trade in Iran. The absolute amount of smuggling per year is about $3 billion. …

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - CESifo - 2014

development of government spending in major sections shapes the political institutions in Iran. This question has become … especially important due to recent international sanctions, aiming to change the political behavior of Iran. We use the impulse … provision spending in Iran. The results imply that a shock in positive changes of democratic quality of institutions leads to …

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Direct Distribution of Rents and the Resource Curse in Iran: A Micro-econometric Analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - CESifo - 2014

subsequent taxation in Iran. We use rich micro survey data covering more than 36,000 Iranian households in 2009. Our micro …

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What is the Relation (if any) Between a Firm's Corporate Governance Arrangements and its Financial Performance?

Wessels, Roberto E.; Wansbeek, Tom J.; Dam, Lammertjan - CESifo - 2014

We present a model to test the null hypothesis that firms organize their corporate governancearrangements optimally given the constraints they face. Following the literature, the modelrejects the null if the conditional correlation between governance and performance issignificantly different...

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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - CESifo - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone’s hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest...

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Corporate Deductibility Provisions and Managerial Incentives

Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - CESifo - 2013

Using an agency model of firm behavior, the paper analyzes whether the cost of investment should be tax exempt. The findings suggest that, when managers engage in wasteful capital expenditures, welfare may decline if the cost of investment is tax deductible, as commonly advocated. The extent to...

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A Revealed Preference Approach to Understanding Corporate Governance Problems: Evidence from Canada

Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - CESifo - 2002

By studying the gap between the discount rates used by executives and shareholders, we assess the extent to which governance problems distort firm behavior. The estimation strategy recovers discount rates used by executives from the pattern of their actual investment spending. Our empirical work...

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