This article presents economic arguments for extending a limited form of fiduciary duty to creditors. It clarifies the two components of debtor-firm opportunism against creditors: director-opportunism and shareholder-opportunism. The analysis, carried out within the economic perspective of...

In this study we analyze how CEO risk incentives affect the efficiency of research and development (R&D) investments. We examine a sample of 843 cases where firms increase their R&D investments by an economically significant amount over the period from 1995 to 2006. We find that firms with...

We find that social capital, as captured by secular norms and networks surrounding corporate headquarters, is negatively associated with total and equity-based CEO compensation. This relation is robust in tests for omitted variables, in instrumental-variable regressions, and in regressions using...