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The (self-)funding of intangibles
Döttling, Robin; Ladika, Tomislav; Perotti, Enrico C. - 2016
. They also tend to grant more deferred equity and prioritize repurchases over dividends in particular when their stock …
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The degradation of distorted performance measures
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2008
Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...
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Testing for distortions in performance measures : an application to residual income based measures like economic value added
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical test developed by Courty and Marschke (2008) to detect whether the widely used class of Residual Income based...
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The corporate calendar and the timing of share repurchases and equity compensation
Dittmann, Ingolf; Li, Amy Yazhu; Obernberger, Stefan; … - 2022
This study examines whether the CEO uses share repurchases to sell her equity grants at inflated stock prices, a … announcement dates. As a consequence, share repurchases and equity compensation are positively correlated. This correlation … conclusion that CEOs systematically misuse share repurchases at the expense of shareholders. To the contrary, equity compensation …
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The fundamental equation in tourism finance
McAleer, Michael - 2015
The purpose of the paper is to present the fundamental equation in tourism finance that connects tourism research to empirical finance and financial econometrics. The energy industry, which includes, oil, gas and bio-energy fuels, together with the tourism industry, are two of the most important...
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Choosing expected shortfall over VaR in Basel III using stochastic dominance
Chang, Chia-Lin; Jiménez-Martín, Juan-Ángel; … - 2015
Bank risk managers follow the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) recommendations that recently proposed shifting the quantitative risk metrics system from Value-at-Risk (VaR) to Expected Shortfall (ES). The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2013, p. 3) noted that: "a number of...
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A stochastic dominance approach to the Basel III dilemma : expected shortfall or VaR?
Chang, Chia-Lin; Jiménez-Martín, Juan-Ángel; … - 2015
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) (2013) recently proposed shifting the quantitative risk metrics system from Value-at-Risk (VaR) to Expected Shortfall (ES). The BCBS (2013) noted that - a number of weaknesses have been identified with using VaR for determining regulatory capital...
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Quantile forecasting for credit risk management using possibly mis-specified hidden Markov models
Banachewicz, Konrad; Lucas, André - 2007
Recent models for credit risk management make use of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). The HMMs are used to forecast quantiles of corporate default rates. Little research has been done on the quality of such forecasts if the underlying HMM is potentially mis-specified. In this paper, we focus on...
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A real options perspective on R&D portfolio diversification
Bekkum, Sjoerd van; Pennings, Enrico; Smit, Han T. J. - 2008
This paper shows that the presence of conditional staging in R&D (Research & Development) has a critical impact on portfolio risk, and changes diversification arguments when a portfolio is constructed. When R&D projects exhibit option-like characteristics, correlation between projects plays a...
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007
We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...
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