We study 84 dual class stock uni. cations, where superior vote shareholders gave up their superior voting status (all firm stocks became quot;one share one votequot;) and received (in most cases) compensation in the form of additional shares. Unifications are essentially intra-firm transactions...

We study how minimum trading unit changes on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange impact stock trading activity, price volatility and value. The value effects are consistent with Merton (1987)'s model, that is an increase in the investor base (trading volume) and a decrease in price noisiness affect...

We collect data on CEO pay in 122 closely-held firms traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange during 1995-2001. After estimating CEO pay performance sensitivity and CEO excess pay, we examine how these two pay attributes affect end of period (year 2001) Tobin's Q. Our main findings and conclusions...

We hypothesize that in a country with lax corporate governance rules Tobin's Q is maximized when controlholders' vote approaches the supermajority level. In this holding range controlholders do not possess extreme power (cannot pass supermajority decisions), nor do they feel a strong temptation...

We study the effect of trading consolidation by examining the response of liquidity and stock price to the exercise of deep in-the-money corporate warrants. This enables a relatively clean test of the value of trading consolidation. The exercise at the warrant expiration is fully anticipated and...

We examine 59 transfers from call auctions to continuous trade on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The transferred stocks experience an average excess return of about 13%, which can be partly explained by their significant liquidity improvements. Significant liquidity and value reactions are also...

We examine 59 transfers from call auctions to continuous trade on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The transferred stocks experience an average excess return of about 13%, which can be partly explained by their significant liquidity improvements. Significant liquidity and value reactions are also...

An examination of 268 CEO appointments in U.S. firms indicates that, on average, appointment of a better-quality CEO (a CEO who receives a pay premium ex-ante) is accompanied by an immediate positive revaluation of stock prices, and is followed by an improvement in firm performance. This...

In comparison to the abundant evidence on CEOs' compensations, little is known about the compensation of other senior executives and on how the pay differential between CEO and other senior executives affects firm performance. We examine several potential explanations of the pay differential in...

This paper examines the value effects of improvements in the trading mechanism. Stocks on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange were transferred gradually from a daily call auction to a mechanism where the call auction was followed by iterated continuous trading sessions. This event was associated with a...