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work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …
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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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A manager's shareholders, board of directors, and potential future employers are continually assessing his ability. A …
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penalty affect their monitoring. Our results suggest that they are more likely to vote against management after observing how …
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responds more to increases in shareholders' return performance than to decreases. Further, this asymmetry is stronger when …
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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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shareholders that provide incentives that motivate them to maximize the shareholders' welfare. In contrast, Bebchuk and Fried argue …
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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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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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