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Market competition or family ties : which prevails on Italian CEOs pay?
Graziano, Clara; Rondi, Laura - 2015 - This draft: June 8, 2015
The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that important differences both in the level of compensation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280832
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Corporate deductibility provisions and managerial incentives
Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2013
findings suggest that, when managers engage in wasteful capital expenditures, welfare may decline if the cost of investment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227267
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A theory of tax avoidance : managerial incentives for tax planning in a multi-task principal-agent model
Ewert, Ralf; Niemann, Rainer - 2014
We derive determinants of tax avoidance by means of a multi-task principal-agent model. We extend prevailing models by integrating both corporate and individual income taxation as well as by including tax planning effort in the agent’s action portfolio. Our model shows novel and apparently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010367166
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Learning from the past : trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century
Frydman, Carola (contributor) - 2008
with the evolution in executive pay and the market for managers during earlier time periods. A case study of General … managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790763
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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? : a panel data analysis for 1977-2009
Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012
work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in … difficult times when the typical firm size shrinks. We find further that domestic and global competition for managers has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009508092
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The bright side of the GDPR : welfare-improving privacy management
Choe, Chongwoo; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shekhar, Shiva - 2023
We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334058
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The efficiency costs of dividend taxation with managerial firms : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2015
The paper analyzes the efficiency costs of dividend taxation in an effort-based corporate agency model in which non-verifiable managerial effort enhances taxable profits. We show that investment changes following a rise in dividend taxes might not be sufficient to infer the efficiency cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374208
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Corruption beyond the glass ceiling : do women entrepreneurs perceive corruption differently?
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2019
by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey …Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample of more than 100 countries. Results show that both female managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996997
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What is the relation (if any) between a firm's corporate governance arrangements and its financial performance?
Wessels, Roberto E.; Wansbeek, Tom - 2014
This paper presents estimates from a latent variables model of the relation between corporate governance and financial performance. We use data on large US corporations to estimate the correlation, conditional on the firms' investment opportunity set, between governance and performance. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235838
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The effect of corporate taxation and ownership on raising shareholder capital
Krämer, Robert; Lipatov, Vilen - 2013
model with strategic interaction between managers and outside shareholders, we hypothesize that, while an increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199748