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incentivizes managers to perform better and thus saves on the cost of providing pay for performance. However, when managerial … talent is scarce, firms compete to attract better managers. This reduces an individual firm's incentives to invest in … by other firms' governance. In equilibrium, better managers end up at firms with weaker governance, and conversely …
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Motivated by agency theory, we explore how independent directors view managerial risk-taking incentives using a natural experiment. We exploit the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as an exogenous shock that raised board independence. Our difference-in-difference estimates show that independent...
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affected by, the choice of governance by other firms. Firms with weaker governance offer managers more generous incentive …
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