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This paper examines the governance role of hedge fund activists by analyzing the impact of these activists on CEO turnover, CEO pay, and CEO pay-performance link in targeted companies. Using the difference-in-difference approach, we first find significantly higher CEO turnover following hedge...
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reduces agency costs because it aligns the interests of managers and investors. In fact, the dirty little secret of executive … pay is that stock options and other performance-based measures provide no penalty for managers who take on excessive risk … extremely large rewards for managers who produce tangible profits, but and essentially nothing for managers for whom profits …
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I solve in closed form for the optimal dynamic risk choice of a fund manager who is compensated with a high-water mark contract. The optimal risk choice depends on the ratio of the fund's assets under management to its high-water mark. If the manager's outside option value is low, investors'...
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We establish that the labor market helps discipline asset managers via the impact of fund liquidations on their careers …. Using hand-collected data on 1,948 professionals, we find that top managers working for funds liquidated after persistently … a model with moral hazard and adverse selection, these scarring effects can be ascribed to a drop in asset managers …
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We establish that the labor market helps discipline asset managers via the impact of fund liquidations on their careers …. Using hand-collected data on 1,948 professionals, we find that top managers working for funds liquidated after persistently … a model with moral hazard and adverse selection, these scarring effects can be ascribed to a drop in asset managers …
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A hedge fund manager invests the fund in a constant investment opportunity, and receives high-water mark fees when the fund reaches a new maximum relative to a stochastic benchmark, aiming to maximize the expected power utility from fees in the long run. The manager's optimal portfolio includes...
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Applying a difference-in-differences approach, we document the effect of hedge fund activism on the corporate governance of target firms through the channel of CEO compensation. We hand-collect data on managerial pay for a sample of 244 U.S. publicly-listed firms that were targets of activist...
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We establish that the labor market helps discipline asset managers via the impact of fund liquidations on their careers …. Using hand-collected data on 1,948 professionals, we find that top managers working for funds liquidated after persistently …
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