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CEO Pay and the rise of Relative Performance Contracts : A Question of Governance?

Bell, Brian - 2016

responds more to increases in shareholders' return performance than to decreases. Further, this asymmetry is stronger when …

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Do CEOs know best? : evidence from China

Bloom, Nicholas; Cheng, Hong; Duggan, Mark G.; Li, Hongbin - 2018

unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We … poorly managed firms. This distribution of management scores is similar for CEOs, senior managers and workers management, and …, we find that the CEO's management scores are the most predictive of firm performance, followed by the senior managers and …

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The impact of competition on management quality : evidence from public hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - 2010

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The impact of competition on management quality : evidence from public hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994673

Why are Firms with More Managerial Ownership Worth Less?

Fabisik, Kornelia - 2018

Using more than 50,000 firm-years from 1988 to 2015, we show that the empirical relation between a firm's Tobin's q and managerial ownership is systematically negative. When we restrict our sample to larger firms as in the prior literature, our findings are consistent with the literature,...

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How Do CEOs Make Strategy?

Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2020

We explore the critical question of how executives make strategic decisions. Utilizing a new survey of 262 CEO alumni of Harvard Business School, we gather evidence on four aspects of each executive's business strategy: its overall structure, its formalization, its development, and its...

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Toxic Emissions and Executive Migration

Levine, Ross - 2018

We study the impact of toxic emissions on the migration of corporate executives. We link data on the opening of industrial plants emitting toxic air pollutants with information on the career paths of executives at all S&P 1500 firms over the 1996-2014 period. We find that (1) the opening of...

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The dark side of outside directors : Do they quit when they are most needed?

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2010

Outside directors have incentives to resign to protect their reputation or to avoid an increase in their workload when they anticipate that the firm on whose board they sit will perform poorly or disclose adverse news. We call these incentives the dark side of outside directors. We find strong...

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Bank CEO Incentives and the Credit Crisis

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2009

no evidence that banks with CEOs whose incentives were better aligned with the interests of their shareholders performed …

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Smart and Illicit : Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More?

Levine, Ross - 2013

We disaggregate the self-employed into incorporated and unincorporated to distinguish between "entrepreneurs" and other business owners. We show that the incorporated self-employed and their businesses engage in activities that demand comparatively strong nonroutine cognitive abilities, while...

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