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Although corporate finance theory suggests how adverse shocks influence shareholder preferences toward corporate risk-taking and executive compensation, few researchers explore this relationship empirically. We construct a firm-year measure of unexpected shocks to environmental regulatory...
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This paper investigates how shocks to expected cash flows influence CEO incentive compensation. Exploiting changes in compliance with environmental regulations as shocks to expected future cash flows, we find that adverse shocks typically prompt corporate boards to recalibrate CEO compensation...
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while firms in non-competitive industries experience a significant drop in operating performance after the laws' passage …
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performance and low levels of uncompensated care increase board turnover, with this sensitivity varying by organizational type …. Poor performance, high administrative costs, and high uncompensated care lead to higher CEO turnover, with these effects …
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This study explores the dynamic structure of the pay-for- performance relationship in CEO compensation and quantifies … the effect of introducing a more complex model of firm financial performance on the estimated performance sensitivity of … executive pay. The results suggest that current compensation responds to past performance outcomes, but that the effect decays …
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investment and firm performance. We find that firm size and moderate competition is associated with higher intangible investment …, while firm age is associated with lower intangible investment. Examining firm performance, we find that higher investment is … and 'soft' performance objectives, but not with productivity or profitability …
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-owned enterprise (SOE) performance evaluation policy. To improve capital allocative efficiency, in 2010, regulators switched from using … return on equity (ROE) to economic value added (EVA) when evaluating SOE performance. This EVA policy adopts a one …-specific costs of capital. We show that SOEs did respond to the performance evaluation reform by altering their investment decisions …
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We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched …-term, both in terms of stock market and accounting performance …
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Shareholder power in the US grew over recent decades due to a steep rise in concentrated institutional ownership. Using establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database for 1982-2015, this paper examines the impact of increases in concentrated institutional...
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Passively managed funds have grown to become some of the largest shareholders in publicly traded companies, but there is considerable debate about the effects of this growth on corporate governance. The goal of this paper is to review the literature on the governance implications of passive fund...
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