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the acquiring firm increases, the interests of managers are more closely aligned with those of shareholders, reducing the …This paper examines the effect of the benefits of corporate control to managers on the relationship between managerial … acquisition premium. At sufficiently high levels of managerial ownership, managers value a reduction in the risk of their …
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Both managerial ownership and performance are endogenously determined by exogenous (and only partly observed) changes in the firm's contracting environment. We extend the cross-sectional results of Demsetz and Lehn (1985) and use panel data to show that managerial ownership is explained by key...
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interest appear to be less constrained than managers of diffusely held firms, yet their power to harm minority shareholders … that the law constrains managerial majority shareholders, both in their day-to-day management and when they redeem the …Corporate managers who own a majority of the common stock in their company or who represent another firm owning such an …
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This paper studies the corporate governance and asset pricing implications of investors owning blocks in multiple firms. Common wisdom is that multi-firm ownership weakens governance because the blockholder is spread too thinly. We show that this need not be the case. In a single-firm benchmark,...
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its performance. We demonstrate that following periods of abnormally good performance, managers are more likely to call … GIM Index or the proportion of activist shareholders. Following these special meetings, we find that the next quarter … following good firm performance or a desire to reward management for good past performance. Overall, our evidence seems more …
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shareholders from the complex, pyramidal, and often obscure corporate structures. First, we show that there are large differences …
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The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has …
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During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of …
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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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connect ownership structures, management contracts, and quarterly cash flows for a large sample of buyout and venture capital …-of-fee performance, in stark contrast to other asset management settings. Instead, compensation is largely unrelated to net-of-fee cash … productivity of manager skills, and in which managers with higher compensation earn back their pay by delivering higher gross …
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