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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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-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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Measuring the performance of private equity investments (buyout and venture) has historically only been possible over … approach to evaluating performance using actual prices paid for limited partner shares of funds in secondary markets. We … construct indices of buyout and venture capital performance using a proprietary database of secondary market prices between 2006 …
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We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance and flows of U.S. actively-managed equity mutual funds during …
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) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have … the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result of the pandemic, they expect the performance of their existing funds to decline. They …
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effective asset allocation. It examines the constant in the style analysis regressions which reflects the over- or under-performance … people roughly 60 years old, lost between 20 and 25 percent of their value. We find that past performance only weakly … influences future expected performance. As with equity funds in general in this period, TDFs with actively managed ingredient …
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Portfolio performance measures using holdings data are panel regressions. The returns of a fund's stocks are regressed … on its lagged portfolio weights. Stock fixed effects isolate average performance from time-series predictive ability …. Control variables condition fund performance on the characteristics of the stocks held. The long term performance of average …
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We examine the performance of the offshore hedge fund industry over the period 1989 through 1995 using a database that … little evidence of differential manager skill. We develop endogenous style categories for relative fund performance measures …
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We show that the standard equation-by-equation OLS used in performance evaluation ignores information in the alpha … forecast for the fund's alpha, offering a new way to think about performance evaluation. In simulations, we show that our …
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, investors make managers' fees more sensitive to performance and benchmark performance against a market index. This makes … overvalued assets. Socially optimal contracts provide steeper performance incentives and cause larger pricing distortions than …
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