work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …

penalty affect their monitoring. Our results suggest that they are more likely to vote against management after observing how …

Compensation, status, and press coverage of managers in the U.S. follow a highly skewed distribution: a small number of … books. The incidence of earnings management increases after winning awards. The effects are strongest in firms with weak … that the ex-post consequences of media-induced superstar status for shareholders are negative …

management and governance that deserves the attention of researchers …

This paper analyzes the links between corporate tax avoidance, the growth of high-powered incentives for managers, and …

-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 …