Executive compensation has garnered much attention in the last decade from both academicians and practitioners. We examine the relationship between increase in CEO compensation, industry specific performance measures, and stock return for the years 1993-1999 in the Real Estate Investment Trust...

We study the performance and diversification of iShares and their rival closed-end country funds from April 1996 to 1999. International iShares are country-specific series of securities that track the price and yield of a specific MSCI country index and, presumably, should provide...

This study documents public debt issuance influences the interrelationships between banking relationships and firm profitability. Using a 3SLS simultaneous equation where public debt is a moderator variable and the number of banking relationships and firm performance are jointly endogenous, we...

We examine private equity with warrant (unit) placements and compare them with private equity placements. Firms making unit placements are smaller, younger, riskier, and characterized by higher information asymmetry than equity-placing firms. Furthermore, unit-placing firms experience good...

Academic research findings on the determinants of executive compensation are mixed. Some researchers attribute this to the inclusion of stock-based compensation in the more recent studies. We study the determinants of stock-based compensation schemes in the REIT industry for the period...

We study the performance and diversification of iShares and their rival closed-end country funds from April 1996 to December 1999. International iShares are country-specific series of securities that track the price and yield of a specific Morgan Stanley Capital Internation (MSCI) country index...