The paper compares the effects of real versus phantom stock option plans as different types of executive compensation of shareholder wealth. So far, literature presupposes that from tax effects both types of plans are equivalent from shareholders' point of view. This question is discussed based...

[...]In this paper, we employ a different empirical strategy tostudy the effects of ownership structure on firm performancethat is free from any corporate events in the ratherhomogenous banking industry. In essence, the performance ofpublicly traded bank holding companies (BHCs) is comparedwith...

[...]We also concentrate our survey on literature that testseconomic hypotheses within samples of U.S. firms. However,we believe that much of our discussion can be generalized tofirms throughout the world. Bushman and Smith (2003)present a broad overview of how differences in...

[...]In this paper, I survey the academic literature onblockholders and corporate control. As with any survey paper,I must be selective. Thus, I focus on empirical research, as Ibelieve that much of what we know about blockholders hascome through empirical investigations as opposed totheoretical...

[...]A fundamental objective of governance research inaccounting is to investigate the properties of accountingsystems and the surrounding institutional environmentimportant to the effective governance of firms. Bushman andSmith (2001) provide an extensive survey and discussion ofgovernance...

[...]In this paper, we study the strength of incentive featuresin banks’ top-management compensation contracts. Weexamine the properties of bank-management compensationstructures, including pay-performance sensitivity, using datafrom 1992 to 2000. Based on existing theory, we hypothesizethat...

[...]We discuss the potential benefits and costs associated withsome of the corporate governance variables for an average firm.However, we stress that all of these variables are ultimately partof a simultaneous system that determines the corporation’svalue and the allocation of such value...

Financial leverage increases the expected return on equity. We show that this leverage effect is not only irrelevant for shareholders' present wealth but also for the return on their invest-ments. This result is straightforward if we do not only look at the return on equity but at the return on...

This contribution discusses a number of ideas for using a shareholder value approach to the problems of risk-adjusted performance measurement and the issue of capital allocation. We demonstrate that, if shareholder value is to be consistently maximised, then not only the total amount of equity...

A financial system can only perform its function of channelling funds from savers toinvestors if it offers sufficient assurance to the providers of the funds that they will reapthe rewards which have been promised to them. To the extent that this assurance is notprovided by contracts alone,...