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How important are risk-taking incentives in executive compensation?

Dittmann, Ingolf; Yu, Ko-Chia - 2009

-taking incentives in addition to effort incentives. We develop a stylized principal-agent model that captures the interdependence … between firm risk and managerial incentives. We calibrate the model to individual CEO data and show that it can explain … with the almost uniform use of at-the-money stock options. We conclude that the provision of risk-taking incentives is a …

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Acquisitions as a real options bidding game

Smit, Han T. J.; Berg, Ward A. van den; De Maeseneire, … - 2005

This paper uses a unified treatment of real options and game theory to examine value appropriation in takeovers within a competitive environment of imperfect information. The integrated model considers a potential target as a shared real option on a bundle of resources. Competing potential...

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The value relevance of disclosing a single corporate target : an explorative empirical analysis

Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

This paper explores the relationship between disclosing corporate targets and value creation. Our empirical results show the value relevance of voluntarily disclosing a low number of targets, whereas there is a clear additional positive effect of disclosing exactly one corporate target in the...

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Disciplining and screening top executives

Dominguez-Martinez, Silvia; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2006

Boards of directors face the twin task of disciplining and screening executives. To perform these tasks directors do not have detailed information about executives' behaviour, and only infrequently have information about the success or failure of initiated strategies, reorganizations, mergers...

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The self-perception theory vs. a dynamic learning model

Swank, Otto H. - 2006

Several economists have directed our attention to a finding in the social psychological literature that extrinsic motivation may undermine intrinsic motivation. The self-perception (SP) theory developed by Bem (1972) explains this finding. The crux of this theory is that people remember their...

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Optimal incentives without expected utility

Gonzalez Jimenez, Victor H. - 2022

This paper investigates the optimal design of incentives when agents distort probabilities. We show that the type of …, the strength of the incentives included in the optimal contract, and the location of incentives on the output space. Our …

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Investor sentiment and employment

Montone, Maurizio; Zwinkels, Remco C. J. - 2015

We find that investor sentiment should affect a firm's employment policy in a world with moral hazard and noise traders. Consistent with the model's predictions, we show that higher sentiment among US investors leads to: (1) higher employment growth worldwide; (2) lower labor productivity, as the...

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A triptych inquiry : rethinking sustainability, innovation, and financial performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2010

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

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A Monte Carlo comparison between the free cash flow and discounted cash flow approaches

Akalu, Mehari Mekonnen; Turner, J. Rodney - 2002

One of the debates in the capital budgeting model selection is between the free cash flow and DCF methods. In this paper an attempt is made to compare SVA against NPV model based on Monte Carlo simulations. Accordingly, NPV is found less sensitive to value driver variations and has got higher...

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Evaluating the capacity of standard investment appraisal methods

Akalu, Mehari Mekonnen - 2002

of monitoring and project value discrepancy, and the absence of uniformity in the use of evaluation methods throughout …

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