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Dynastic management is the inter-generational transmission of control over assets that is typical of family-owned firms …. It is pervasive around the World, but especially in developing countries. We argue that dynastic management is a … incidence of dynastic management depends on the severity of asset-market imperfections, on the economy's saving rate, and on the …
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Tracking the movement of top managers across firms, we document the importance of manager-specific fixed effects in explaining heterogeneity in firm exposures to systematic risk. These differences in systematic risk are partially explained by managers' corporate strategies, such as their...
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We examine businesses' financial management of a rare, severe event using detailed firm-level data collected following …
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We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …
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Mutual fund managers can outperform the market by picking stocks or timing the market successfully. Previous work has estimated picking and timing skill, assuming that each manager is endowed with a fixed amount of each and found some evidence of picking skills and little evidence of timing...
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We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial biases approach...
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We study the interplay of share prices and firm decisions when share prices aggregate and convey noisy information about fundamentals to investors and managers. First, we show that the informational feedback between the firm's share price and its investment decisions leads to a systematic...
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Hedge fund managers are compensated via management fees on the assets under management (AUM) and incentive fees indexed … only paid via management fees, the manager optimally chooses time-invariant leverage to balance the size of allocation to … via both management and incentive fees, we show that (i) the high-powered incentive fees encourage excessive risk taking …
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Understanding and minimizing the transaction costs of policy implementation are critical for reducing tropical forest losses. As the international community prepares to launch REDD+, a global initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, policymakers need to pay...
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This paper, which introduces the special issue on corporate governance co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research. The special issue features seven papers on corporate...
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