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mortgage foreclosure auction process compared with law firms that contract with independent auction companies. They find that …
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The paper investigates the role of CEO's equity and risk incentives in boosting securitization in the financial … securitization transactions to a larger extent than CEOs with low incentives. We also show that CEOs with high equity and risk …-related incentives have engaged in the securitization of risky loans and have used securitization for transferring risks to outside …
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The paper investigates the role of CEO risk incentives in increasing the riskiness of securitization transactions in … problem between risk incentives and securitization, we document that: i) financial institutions whose CEOs had high risk … incentives engaged in securitization transactions to a larger extent than did financial institutions guided by CEOs with low risk …
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Using a regulation that increased portfolio disclosure frequency of US mutual funds as an exogenous shock shortening funds’ investment horizon, we find that affected funds influence portfolio firms to reduce the pay duration of their executives to incentivize them to also have shorter...
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Under the principal-agent framework, we study and compare different compensation schemes commonly adopted by hedge fund and mutual fund managers. We find that the option-like performance fee structure prevalent among hedge funds is suboptimal to the symmetric performance fee structure. However,...
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Using unique hand-collected data on CEO compensation packages retrieved from the largest 59 European banks from 16 Western European countries for the period from 2000 to 2008 this paper provides empirical evidence that both variable cash-based and variable equity-based compensation are...
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CEO compensation in the financial sector has been a controversial topic following the financial crisis. I use a new dataset with detailed information on CEO remuneration of major international banks from 2000 to 2008 to give a comprehensive overview of compensation practices in banking...
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