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an information ea between management and outside shareholders. In the presence of such a gap, maximizing short-run and … actions that will reduce long-run value. In such a case, management faces the dilemma of which shareholders to please: those … long-run stock prices are not the same thing. Management may be able to raise current stock prices by undertaking certain …
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aggregation for corporate risk-taking and investment. Market imperfections cause controlling shareholders to invest too much in … shareholders' collective attempts to boost shareholder value of individual firms leads to a novel pecuniary externality that … excess leverage, agency conflicts between shareholders and managers, negative welfare effects of transparency, excess …
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firms where the routine use of pyramid ownership structures provides an acute separation of management cash flow rights and … of debt that positively impacts shareholder value is the type that closely monitors management. This combination of a …
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This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on executive compensation. We start by presenting data on the level of CEO and other top executive pay over time and across firms, the changing composition of pay; and the strength of executive incentives. We compare pay in U.S. public...
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wealth maximization derived from shareholders' status as residual claimants are vulnerable on several fronts. Share … quasirents, expected earnings beyond expected costs of capital from investors, to which shareholders have no obvious claim. Other … made firm-specific investments, may exert stronger claims than atomistic public shareholders have to shares of their firms …
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This paper studies the corporate governance and asset pricing implications of investors owning blocks in multiple firms. Common wisdom is that multi-firm ownership weakens governance because the blockholder is spread too thinly. We show that this need not be the case. In a single-firm benchmark,...
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work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …
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executives and boards, driven in large part by their perceptions of shareholder interest. We quantify the value that shareholders … place on ESG using a revealed preference approach, where shareholders pay higher fees for ESG-oriented index funds in …
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This paper estimates the effect of corporate governance provisions on shareholder value and long-term outcomes in S&P1500 firms. We apply a regression discontinuity design to shareholder votes on governance proposals in annual meetings. A close-call vote around the majority threshold is akin to...
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This paper develops an account of the role and significance of managerial power and rent extraction in executive compensation. Under the optimal contracting approach to executive compensation, which has dominated academic re-search on the subject, pay arrangements are set by a board of directors...
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