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Banks in bad financial shape are more likely to appoint executive directors from the outside than those in good shape. It is, however, not clear whether all of these appointments necessarily lead to the desired turnaround. We analyze the performance effects of new board members with external...
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This study investigates the development of income-decreasing discretionary expenses surrounding CEO turnovers at banks. We expect incoming CEOs to take an earnings bath during the initial stage of their tenure. For a sample of German banks over the period 1993-2012, we document that (1) incoming...
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Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policymakers. Yet, we know little about director appointment dynamics and the drivers and impediments of women appointments. This study builds on organizational and group-level behavior theories and...
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which managers could become entrenched, they already bear a large proportion of the costs and have therefore an incentive to …
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This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through … relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a worker-firm matched panel dataset which enables us to track managers across …. Contrary to blue and white collars, we find that managers are paid a sizeable premium for export experience which has both a …
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