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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...
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Executive compensation : a survey of theory and evidence
Edmans, Alex; Gabaix, Xavier; Jenter, Dirk - 2017
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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Finance, control, and profitability : the influence of German banks
Chirinko, Robert S.; Elston, Julie Ann Michelle - 2003
Bank intermediated finance has been cited frequently as the preferred means for channeling funds from savers to firms. Germany is the prototypical economy where universal banks allegedly exert substantial influence over firms. Despite frequent assertions about the considerable power of German...
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CEO preferences and acquisitions
Jenter, Dirk; Lewellen, Katharina - 2011
This paper explores the impact of target CEOs' retirement preferences on the incidence, the pricing, and the outcomes of takeover bids. Mergers frequently force target CEOs to retire early, and CEOs' private merger costs are the forgone benefits of staying employed until the planned retirement...
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Mavericks, universal, and common owners : the largest shareholders of U.S. public firms
Amel-Zadeh, Amir; Kasperk, Fiona; Schmalz, Martin C. - 2022
We construct a novel data set to show that, between 2003-2020, up to one-fifth of America's largest firms had a non-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional investors. Measures of "universal" and...
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A revealed preference approach to understanding corporate governance problems : evidence from Canada
Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - 2002
By studying the gap between the discount rates used by executives and shareholders, we assess the extent to which governance problems distort firm behavior. The estimation strategy recovers discount rates used by executives from the pattern of their actual investment spending. Our empirical work...
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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...
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Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?
Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 2020
Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...
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How weak is the weakest-link principle? : on the measurement of firm owners' control rights
Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2004
The paper argues that the weakest link principle, which has been widely used as a measure of ultimate owners' control rights, has a number of serious problems. A theoretically more satisfactory method of measuring control rights, based on voting power indices, is proposed, and the different...
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Voting in corporate boards with heterogeneous preferences
Balduzzi, Paolo; Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - 2011
outsiders who want to maximize the firm's profit and independent outsiders who care about their reputation. We show that the … positive probability. Substituting profit-maximizing directors with directors concerned about their reputation is not an … obstacle to profit maximization provided that an appropriate sequential voting protocol is followed. We also show that a proper …
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