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investment methods, and reallocation policies in internal capital markets. CFOs see the main financial benefits of being …
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I examine the effects of entrenchment on corporate investment and firm performance. To achieve identification, I use a …. These findings are consistent with the shirking hypothesis that entrenchment enables managers to evade the responsibilities … of overseeing investment projects …
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We examine the effects of entrenchment on corporate investment and firm performance. To achieve identification, we use … firm value. These findings are consistent with the shirking hypothesis that entrenchment enables managers to slack off and … dodge responsibilities of overseeing investment projects …
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I document that for a group of 38 countries ranging from low to high income: (1) the share of skilled managers is … higher in richer countries, (2) the relative income of managers to non-managers is lower in richer countries, and (3) the … relative income of skilled to unskilled individuals is lower in richer countries. In addition, the share of managers is lower …
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We show that executives cut investment when their incentives become more short-term. We examine a unique event in which … exploits that FAS 123-R's adoption was staggered almost randomly by firms' fiscal year-ends. CEOs cut investment and reported …
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This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
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migration redistribution and investment process. This topic was chosen because in the modern conditions human potential … investment process that implies expansion of investment instruments, market infrastructure subjects development all this may …
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Business groups in emerging markets perform better than unaffiliated firms. One explanation is that business groups substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. We investigate this by setting up a model where firms within the business group are connected...
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I show that access to the public debt market is associated with a significant reduction in the level of capital expenditures and takeovers, especially for firms with higher credit risk. Firms accessing the bond market also become less likely to violate debt covenants, reduce the level of payouts...
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, and Wang (2018, 2017) and is suggestive of the nature of tournament incentives among mutual fund managers (Brown, Harlow …
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