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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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The labor market consequences of acquisitions

Beuschlein, Jakob; Jósef Sigurdsson; Wong, Horng Chern - 2025

We study the effects of corporate acquisitions on workers using Swedish administrative data and document substantial, persistent earnings losses following acquisitions. These losses reflect both displacement and wage cuts among stayers from target firms. We find no evidence that increased...

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Busy Directors and Firm Performance : Evidence from Mergers

Hauser, Roie - 2017

This paper studies whether director appointments to multiple boards impact firm outcomes. To overcome endogeneity of board appointments, I exploit variation generated by mergers that terminate entire boards and thus shock the appointments of those terminated directors. Reductions of board...

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Stock Performance or Entrenchment? The Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on CEO Compensation

Kumar, Praveen - 2012

Using a large sample of U.S. acquiring and non-acquiring firms and covering a broad sample of transactions, we examine the effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on CEO compensation during 1993-2006, a period of intense M&A activity. We alleviate endogeneity concerns through dynamic panel...

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Mergers and Acquisitions : CEO Duality, Operating Performance and Stock Returns

Pham, Nga - 2014

The paper provides evidence, in an emerging market context in the Pacific Basin, that the CEO duality leadership structure of a firm does impact the strategic decisions made by the firm. Specifically, firms that are run by CEO duality structure are perceived by the capital market to be better...

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Timing CEO Turnovers : Evidence from Delegation in Mergers and Acquisitions

Greene, Daniel; Smith, Jared - 2021

We examine the role of delegation in predicting CEO successions. Using a novel proxy for delegation in mergers and acquisitions, we find that overall CEO turnover rates are about one third higher following deals where the CEO delegates to a senior manager versus deals with no observable...

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Compensations of top executives and M&A behaviors : an empirical study of listed companies

Xue, Jiao; Fan, Heng; Dong, Zhanxun - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 8 (2020) 4/64, pp. 1-13

This study empirically examines the relationship between executive compensation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) behaviors by identifying the influence of short- and long-term incentive on the propensity and scale of M&A. When the short-term incentive is insufficient, M&A behaviors serve as a...

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Governance mandates, outside directors, and acquirer performance

Dahya, Jay; Golubov, Andrey; Petmezas, Dimitris; … - 2016

We use hand-collected board data around the issuance of two distinct government-led board structure mandates in the U.K. to establish the effect of outside directors on acquirer performance. Increases in outside director representation are associated with better acquirer returns in deals...

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The Impact of Bank Merger Growth on CEO Compensation

Chen, Zhian - 2017

characterised by significant banking consolidation. We show that CEO compensation is positively related to both merger growth and … non-merger internal growth, with the former relation being higher in magnitude. While CEO pay–risk sensitivity is not … significantly related to merger growth, CEO pay–performance sensitivity is negatively and significantly related to merger growth …

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Review of the literature on merger waves

Cho, Sangjun; Chung, Chune Young - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 10, pp. 1-21

Over the past few decades, the rapid growth of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) has received interest from academics and practitioners. While M&As continue to be the subject of thorough investigation from a corporate governance standpoint, comparatively less effort has been made to organize and...

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