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managerial bonuses and company performance. Drawing on findings of gender studies, agency theory, and the leadership literature … performance has a moderating impact on pay inequalities. Employing a matched sample of 192 female and male executive directors of … managerial compensation of male executive directors is much more performance-sensitive than that of female executives. The …
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Abstract: Are female top managers paid less than their male counterparts? Is the gender gap higher in male-dominated industries? What effect on pay do female non-executive directors and remuneration consultants exert? While we find no pay gap for the figure-head (CEO), there is strong pay...
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We analyze the payout channel choice of listed UK firms and examine whether the choice between dividends, share repurchases, a combination of payout channels, or complete earnings retention is affected by investor sentiment, taxation, major shareholder ownership, and in particular the CEO’s...
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We investigate patterns of abnormal stock performance around insider trades and option exercises on the Dutch market …
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This study looks inside a large retail-banking group to understand how corporate politics affect internal capital allocation. The group consists of a headquarters organization and about 150 member banks which own the headquarters. Our data is from the firm’s managerial accounting system and...
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flows as a summary performance measure does not have significant incremental usefulness. …
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Nowadays, every bookkeeping system used in practice is automated. Most bookkeeping software and integrated information systems are based on databases. In this paper, we develop a new conceptual bookkeeping model which is not based on manual techniques, but which is applicable in a database...
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and their replacement are strongly performance-sensitive.Top executive turnover is shown to serve as a disciplinary … mechanism for corporate underperformance, whereas the level of monetary compensation rewards good performance.We also … impact on managerial disciplining or on the pay-for-performance contracts.There is little evidence of outside shareholder …
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This paper examines the choice between two rights-preserving issue methods of seasoned equity offers in the UK as well as the factors determining the offer price and stock market announcement reactions.Firstly, equity issues in the UK are underwritten for different reasons than in other...
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In a market-based financial system, credit is held by dispersed creditors, and out-of-court renegotiation of debt is more likely to fail because of hold-out problems; in a bank-based system, out-of-court renegotiation stands good chances to succeed. Since out-of-court renegotiation is a...
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