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Basierend auf einem neuen, die deutschen Prime-Standard-Unternehmen für die Jahre 2005 bis 2007 umfassenden Datensatz untersuchen wir die Determinanten der Höhe der Vorstandsvergütung. Dabei unterscheiden wir drei Kategorien möglicher Einflussfaktoren: Unternehmens-, Performance- und...
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This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...
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Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China's corporate governance will …
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To gain insights about the quality of board's firing decisions, we investigate abnormal stock returns and operating performance around CEO-turnover announcements in a new hand- collected sample of 208 “clean” turnover events between January 1998 and June 2009. Unlike the majority of previous...
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with the evolution in executive pay and the market for managers during earlier time periods. A case study of General …
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This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...
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This paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the facts that (1) social networks may strongly affect board composition and (2) social networks may be detrimental to corporate governance. Our empirical investigation relies on a unique dataset on executives and outside directors of...
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between the past performance of firms measured by return on sales and return on assets, and the likelihood of managerial … ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
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which managers could become entrenched, they already bear a large proportion of the costs and have therefore an incentive to …
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