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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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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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Does target CEO retention in acquisitions involving private equity acquirers harm target shareholders?
Bargeron, Leonce; Schlingemann, Frederik P.; Zutter, Chad J. - 2012
While there is widespread concern that target CEO retention by a private equity acquirer can result in a lower premium for target shareholders because of the potential conflict of interest of the CEO, it is also possible that target shareholders could benefit from CEO retention because it can...
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Managerial entrenchment of anti-takeover devices : quasi-experimental evidence from Korea
Hwang, Sunwoo; Kim, U-chʾan - 2011
With the removal of statute-based anti-takeover provisions during the aftermath of Asian crisis, a significant number … firm-level anti-takeover provisions (ATP) vary over time (making firm fixed effects regression feasible) and its amendment …. Using a sample during 1999-2009, we find that firms with charter-based anti-takeover provisions are smaller in size, have …
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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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The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Executive Pay in the United Kingdom
Guest, Paul M. - 2012
We examine the impact of acquisitions by UK acquirers on executive pay. The overall sample shows a significant transitory pay increase. Pay changes are not affected by target nationality or organizational form, although initial cross-border acquisitions result in higher pay. Pay increases are...
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The Role of the Media in Corporate Governance : Do the Media Influence Managers’ Decisions to Abandon Acquisition Attempts?
Liu, Baixiao - 2012
-reducing acquisition attempt, managers' sensitivity to the firm's stock price reaction during the announcement period is influenced by the … level and the tone of media attention to the proposed transaction. We interpret the results to imply that managers have …-reducing acquisition attempts are more likely to be abandoned, the media can play a role in aligning managers' and shareholders' interests …
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Does the Director Labor Market Offer Ex Post Settling-Up for CEOs? The Case of Acquisitions
Harford, Jarrad - 2012
A common view in the literature is that the director labor market provides an ex post settling-up for past decisions by rewarding CEO ability and actions that are consistent with shareholder interests. In this paper we focus on large CEO acquisition decisions to investigate whether the director...
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