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A Theory of Income Smoothing When Insiders Know More than Outsiders
Acharya, Viral V. - 2011
We consider a setting in which insiders have information about income that outside shareholders do not, but property rights ensure that outside shareholders can enforce a fair payout. To avoid intervention, insiders report income consistent with outsiders' expectations based on publicly...
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Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies
Ben-David, Itzhak - 2008
Using a unique 10-year panel that includes more than 13,300 expected stock market return probability distributions, we find that executives are severely miscalibrated, producing distributions that are too narrow: realized market returns are within the executives' 80% confidence intervals only...
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Are CEOS Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?
Hall, Brian J.; Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2021
A common view of CEO compensation is that there is essentially no correlation between firm performance and CEO pay. This calls into question an important component of effective corporate governance. This zero correlation' belief is based on the widely cited result that CEO wealth rises by only...
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Returns on FDI : Does the U.S. Really Do Better?
Bosworth, Barry - 2007
According to the U.S. external accounts, U.S. investors earn a significantly higher rate of return on their foreign investments than foreigners earn in the United States. This continued strong performance has produced a positive net investment income balance despite the deterioration in the U.S....
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Understanding U.S. Corporate Tax Losses
Altshuler, Rosanne - 2010
Recent data present a puzzle: the ratio of corporate tax losses to positive income was much higher around 2001 than in earlier recessions. Using a comprehensive 1982-2005 sample of U.S. corporation tax returns, we explore a variety of potential explanations for this surge in tax losses, taking...
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The Margins of Global Sourcing : Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms
Antras, Pol - 2014
We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical export models where firm profits are additively separable across destination markets, global sourcing decisions...
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Executive Pay and Performance : Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry
Hubbard, R. Glenn - 2011
control markets (i.e., where interstate banking is permitted) require talented managers whose levels of compensation are … higher. We also find that the compensation-performance relationship is stronger than for managers in markets where interstate …
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Why Has CEO Pay Increased so Much?
Gabaix, Xavier - 2006
This paper develops a simple equilibrium model of CEO pay. CEOs have different talents and are matched to firms in a competitive assignment model. In market equilibrium, a CEO%u2019s pay changes one for one with aggregate firm size, while changing much less with the size of his own firm. The...
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How Do Quasi-Random Option Grants Affect CEO Risk-Taking?
Shue, Kelly - 2019
We examine how an increase in stock option grants affects CEO risk-taking. The overall net effect of option grants is theoretically ambiguous for risk-averse CEOs. To overcome the endogeneity of option grants, we exploit institutional features of multi-year compensation plans, which generate two...
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Private Benefits and Cross-Listings in the United States
Benos, Evangelos - 2014
-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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