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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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The market for CEOs

Cziraki, Peter; Jenter, Dirk - 2021

We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs' prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...

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Divide and privatize : firm break-up and performance

Kočenda, Evžen; Hanousek, Jan - 2011

We analyze the long-term effects of firm break-up and ownership change on corporate performance. Our analysis is based on a unique data set for a large number of Czech firms spanning the period 1996-2005. We employ a propensity score matching procedure to deal with endogeneity problems. Our...

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Entrepreneurship, organization capital and the evolution of the firm

Oshima, Atsushi (contributor); Ravikumar, B. (contributor); … - 2008

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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …

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Common ownership, competition, and top management incentives

Antón, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; … - 2016

We show theoretically and empirically that executives are paid less for their own firm's performance and more for their rivals' performance if an industry's firms are more commonly owned by the same set of investors. Higher common ownership also leads to higher unconditional total pay. We...

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Thin capitalization rules and multinational firm capital structure

Blouin, Jennifer L.; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2014

This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...

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The demand for executive skills

Hansen, Stephen; Ramdas, Tejas; Sadun, Raffaella; … - 2021

We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting cognitive, interpersonal, and...

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Managerial job assignment and imperfect competition in asymmetric equilibrium

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms. performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms...

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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 …

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