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work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …
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both managers and firms, and affects the contractual relationships between those parties in important ways. Assessment (or …
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A manager's shareholders, board of directors, and potential future employers are continually assessing his ability. A …
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-country differences in the levels of private benefits obtained by corporate managers, as well as the country-specific factors associated … discuss the circumstances under which managers would choose to cross-list their stocks in the United States, when such a cross …-listing has important implications for managers' private benefits. Finally, we survey recent empirical work that tests empirical …
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This paper examines optimal capital structure choice using a dynamic capital structure model that is calibrated to reflect actual firm characteristics. The model uses contingent-claim methods to value interest tax shields, allows for reorganization in bankruptcy, and maintains a long-run target...
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Indirect incentives exist in the money management industry when good current performance increases future inflows of … managers. Flows respond quickly and strongly to performance; lagged performance has a monotonically decreasing impact on flows … times as large as direct incentives from incentive fees and returns to managers' own investment in the fund. For new funds …
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's prospects. Overall, uncertainty about management quality appears to be an important source of stock return volatility …
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with shareholders that provide incentives that motivate them to maximize the shareholders' welfare. In contrast, Bebchuk …
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Using a large sample of institutional investors' private equity investments in venture and buyout funds, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects returns from private equity investments. We first consider whether investors have differential skill by comparing the distribution of...
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This paper documents the existence of a CEO Investment Cycle, in which firms disinvest early in a CEO's tenure and increase investment subsequently, leading to "cyclical" firm growth in assets as well as in employment over CEO tenure. The CEO investment cycle occurs for both firings and...
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