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Does CEO fitness matter?
Limbach, Peter; Sonnenburg, Florian - 2015 - This draft: November 2015
This study provides evidence suggesting that CEOs’ physical fitness has a positive impact on firm value, consistent with the beneficial effects of fitness on, e.g., cognitive functions, stress coping and job performance. For each of the years 2001 to 2011, we define S&P 1500 CEOs as fit if...
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CEO fitness and firm value
Limbach, Peter; Sonnenburg, Florian - 2015 - First Draft: September 2014, This Draft: May 2015
We provide evidence for a positive impact of CEO fitness on firm value (Tobin's Q). For each of the years 2001 to 2011, we define S&P 1500 CEOs as fit if they finish a marathon. Fit CEOs are associated with higher firm profitability and M&A announcement returns. Effects on firm value are...
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All good things come to an end : CEO tenure and firm value
Limbach, Peter; Schmid, Markus M.; Scholz, Meik - 2015 - This draft: July 3, 2015
Our study is the first to provide systematic evidence of a hump-shaped CEO tenure-firm value relation. This pattern is supported by announcement returns to sudden CEO deaths, which mitigate endogeneity concerns. Cross-sectionally, firm value starts to decline after fewer years of CEO tenure in...
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CEO fitness and firm value
Limbach, Peter; Sonnenburg, Florian - 2014 - This Draft: September 2014
This study finds a positive relation between CEO fitness and firm value. For each of the years 2001 to 2011, we define CEOs of S&P 1500 companies as being fit if they finish a marathon. The literature suggests that fitness moderates stress and positively affects cognitive functions and...
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Does protectionist anti-takeover legislation lead to managerial entrenchment?
Frattaroli, Marc - 2018
I study a protectionist anti-takeover law introduced in 2014 that covers a subset of all firms in the economy. The law decreased affected firms' likelihood of becoming the target of a merger or acquisition and had a negative impact on shareholder value. There is no evidence that management of...
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The Effects of Financial Deregulation on Bank Governance : Evidence from Bank Merger Deregulation
Roengpitya, Rungporn - 2011
This paper examines the effects of the bank merger deregulation passed by U.S. Congress in 1994 on the board … states for 3 years, I found that banks in states with intrastate branching deregulation had a lower proportion of outside … board directors (OBDs) and banks in states with interstate banking and the bank holding company deregulation had a higher …
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What’s happened over the past 10 years to the selection of retired CEOs as board members?
Lee, Changmin - Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research … - 2007
I analyze directorships held by CEOs who retired during 1989-1993 and during 1998-2002. My results suggest that retired CEOs became more popular on boards. Also, although pre-retirement accounting performance helps explain the number of outside directorships a retired CEO held in the 1989-1993...
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Fusiones y adquisiciones en Latinoamérica, gobierno corporativo y modelo gravitacional
Vasco, Mateo; Cortés, Lina; Gaitán, Sandra; Durán, Iván - In: Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 19 (2014) 37, pp. 108-117
En el presente estudio se analiza si la actividad de fusiones y adquisiciones (M&A, por su sigla en inglés) transnacionales está influenciada por los estándares de gobierno corporativo de los países. Para lograrlo, se recurre al modelo gravitacional. Se toma la actividad proveniente de...
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Cash holdings, corporate governance, and acquirer returns
Ahn, Seoungpil; Chung, Jaiho - In: Financial Innovation 1 (2015) 13, pp. 1-31
Background: The wealth effect of limiting shareholder rights via anti-takeover provisions(ATPs) is a contentious issue. By taking the differential effect hypothesis perspective, our study aims to provide additional evidence about the relation between ATPs and acquisition performance. Methods: We...
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The executive turnover risk premium
Peters, Florian; Wagner, Alexander F. - 2009
We establish that CEOs of companies experiencing volatile industry conditions are more likely to be dismissed. At the same time, industry risk is, accounting for various other factors, unlikely to be associated with CEO compensation other than through dismissal risk. Using this identification...
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