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Executive compensation and the susceptibility of firms to hostile takeovers. An empirical investigation of the U.S. oil industry
Nowak, Eric; Haid, Michael H. - 1999
takeover imposed by the market for corporate control. We complement other empirical studies on managerial compensation and … consists of 51 firms in the U.S. oil industry from 1977 to 1994. Third, we employ ex ante measures of the threat of takeover at … the individual firm level which are superior to ex post measures like actual takeover occurrence or past incidence of …
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Disentangling the link between stock and accounting performance in acquisitions
Betzer, André; Goergen, Marc - 2011
While empirical studies that use event-study methodology find on average that the gains from mergers and acquisitions are positive, those focusing on accounting figures tend to find a significant drop in performance. We argue that each of the four possible combinations between positive or...
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Auf dem Weg zur weltanschaulichen Bekenntnisschule: Das wirtschaftspolitische Leitbild der Hochschule Pforzheim
Maurer, Rainer - 2015
Dieses Diskussionspapier beleuchtet die PRME-Verpflichtung der Hochschule Pforzheim und die daraus resultierenden Probleme (Abschnitt 2) aus vier Perspektiven: der erkenntnistheoretischen (Abschnitt 3), der erfahrungswissenschaftlichen (Abschnitt 4), der juristischen (Abschnitt 5) und einer...
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Does corporate diversity really matter in the plantation sector? Empirical evidence from a world islamic leading country and market reaction
Hassan, Rohail; Marimuthu, Maran - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 5 (2017) 3, pp. 1-25
The paper examines demographic and cognitive diversity at top-level management and its impact on the performance of Malaysian-listed companies (Plantation and Energy Sectors). Although many organisations aspire to be socially diverse, diversity's consequences for organisational performance...
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Crisis Management at Cross-Roads - Challenges facing cross-border financial institutions at the EU level
Ayadi, Rym; Balling, Morten; Caruana, Jaime; Evenepoel, … - 2010
On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.
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Reforming SOEs in Asia: Lessons from competition law and policy in India
Singh, Vijay Kumar - 2019
India is one of the most significant countries of Asia, particularly in terms of its population and growing economy and markets. India has rapidly moved from a 'command and control' economy to free-market principles, and in this regard, one of the major reforms revamped the competition law. The...
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Institutional shareholding as a corporate governance mechanism that drives Chief Executive Officer pay
Pucheta-Martínez, María Consuelo; Chiva-Ortells, Carlos - In: BRQ Business Research Quarterly 23 (2020) 3, pp. 217-233
We explore the effect of institutional directors on Chief Executive Officer (CEO) pay (total, fixed, and variable compensation). We delve particularly into the impact of pressure-sensitive and pressure-resistant institutional directors, who, respectively, represent institutional investors who...
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Stocking Up on Wealth . . . Concentration
Fix, Blair - In: Real-World Economics Review (2024) 107, pp. 40-56
It turns out that like the rest of us, billionaires experience wealth inequality. (Individuals who top the Forbes billionaire list are far richer than those at the bottom of the list.) Interestingly, this billionaire wealth concentration fluctuates over time … in tight correlation with the...
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Determinants of the level of indebtedness for Brazilian firms: A quantile regression approach
Oliveira, Guilherme Resende; Tabak, Benjamin Miranda; … - In: EconomiA 14 (2013) 3-4, pp. 123-138
We investigate the determinants of the capital structure of Brazilian companies between 2000 and 2009. We use a quantile regression model and compare its results with the ones provided by conventional models (least squares and fixed effects). We show that the effects of the capital structure...
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Ownership concentration and bank profitability
Ozili, Peterson Kitakogelu; Uadiale, Olayinka - In: Future Business Journal 3 (2017) 2, pp. 159-171
We investigate whether ownership concentration influences bank profitability in a developing country context. We focus on bank ownership concentration measured as the amount of direct equity held by a majority shareholder categorised into: high ownership concentration, moderate ownership...
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