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We investigate whether bank performance during the credit crisis of 2008 is related to CEO incentives and share ownership before the crisis and whether CEOs reduced their equity stakes in their banks in anticipation of the crisis. There is no evidence that banks with CEOs whose incentives were...
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are higher when firms can initiate non-contractible innovative investments that enhance the value of their stakeholder … relationships. Stakeholder effects of transparency are especially important for younger firms with less established track records (e …
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Firms that are more highly levered are forced to raise capital more often, a process that generates information about them. Of course transparency can improve the allocation of capital. However, when the information about the firm affects the terms under which the firm transacts with its...
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, shareholder value maximization constitutes something of a bright line; whereas stakeholder welfare maximization is an ill …
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"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …
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Empirical work testing for a negative tradeoff between risk and incentives, a cornerstone of agency theory, has not had …
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As growing numbers of retirees reach retirement age with substantial balances in self-directed retirement plans, annuities are likely to become increasingly important instruments for drawing down retirement savings. This study explores recent trends in the pricing of single-premium annuity...
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's systematic equity risk and falls with the firm's unsystematic equity risk. Further, an increase in the firm's total equity risk … is associated with a fall in q. The negative relation between the change in total risk and the change in q is robust …
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implications of risky behaviors by youths. I begin by reviewing perspectives on youth risk-taking from traditional rational … risk-taking by youths, and how this compares to adults. I review the evidence on youth risk taking from the studies in this … risk taking by youths, (b) despite this, these factors are not very successful in predicting the dramatic time series …
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This paper provides an empirical investigation into the relationship between ex ante U.S. labor contract durations and uncertainty over the period 1970 to 1995. We construct measures of inflation uncertainty as well as aggregate nominal and real uncertainty. The results not only corroborate...
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