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The Politics of CEOs
Cohen, Alma - 2019
CEOs of public companies have influence over the political spending of their firms, which has been attracting significant attention since the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. Furthermore, the policy views expressed by CEOs receive substantial consideration from policymakers and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479765
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CEO Pay and the rise of Relative Performance Contracts : A Question of Governance?
Bell, Brian - 2016
responds more to increases in shareholders' return performance than to decreases. Further, this asymmetry is stronger when …
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The impact of competition on management quality : evidence from public hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975898
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Politics and Gender in the Executive Suite
Cohen, Alma; Hazan, Moshe; Weiss, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Are the political preferences of CEOs associated with the representation and compensation of women in the executive suite? We find that Democratic CEOs (those who contribute more to Democratic candidates) are associated with higher representation of women in the executive suite. To explore...
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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality : Evidence from Public Hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas - 2010
In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462620
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The politics of CEOs
Cohen, Alma; Hazan, Moshe; Tallarita, Roberto; Weiss, David - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027274
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Learning and the disappearing association between governance and returns
Bebchuk, Lucian A.; Cohen, Alma; Wang, Charles C. Y. - 2010
"Abstract: In an important and influential work, Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2003) show that a trading strategy based on an index of 24 governance provisions (G-Index) would have earned abnormal returns during the 1991-1999 period, and this intriguing finding has attracted much attention ever...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003964388
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CEO pay and the rise of relative performance contracts : a question of governance?
Bell, Brian; Van Reenen, John - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521450
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Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2010
In an important and influential work, Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2003) show that a trading strategy based on an index of 24 governance provisions (G-Index) would have earned abnormal returns during the 1991-1999 period, and this intriguing finding has attracted much attention ever since it was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462740
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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003326113