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2008 financial crisis. Strong and weak banks also stand apart: managers from weak banks took more risk than their peers in …
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direct incentives from incentive fees and managers' personal stakes in the fund. Combining direct and indirect incentives …
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(2008) fail to find a general trend in hedge fund managers risk-taking behavior when their option is out of the money …
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This paper investigates whether CEO pay disparity reflects efficient contracting or CEO entrenchment by exploiting an exogenous event which mandated option expensing, namely, the introduction of FAS 123R. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find supportive evidence for the entrenchment...
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(performance fees) and implicit incentives (fund flows) of asset managers. Funds with performance fees face substantially steeper …
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. This paper develop a model suggesting that employee ownership policy reveals management quality. Good managers would use … employee ownership as a reward management tool whereas bad managers would implement it for entrenchment motives. We bring about … three main conclusions: (i) Bad managers use employee ownership as an entrenchment mechanism. (ii) This latter phenomenon …
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model suggesting that employee ownership policy reveals management quality. Good managers would use employee ownership as a … reward management tool whereas bad managers would implement it for entrenchment motives. We bring about three main … conclusions: (i) Bad managers use employee ownership as an entrenchment mechanism. (ii) This latter phenomenon increases the cost …
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We analyze risk shifting by poorly performing hedge funds - and test predictions on the extent to which risk choices are related to the fund's incentive contract, investment horizon and dissemination of performance information. Consistent with theoretical arguments we find that the propensity...
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Morse, Nanda and Seru (2011) interpret the data to suggest that more powerful CEOs ex-post change their incentive contracts more. My paper points out a number of issues with their inference. First and most importantly, MNS do not control for the fact that not just the most powerful but almost...
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This study investigates the relation between the use of explicit employment agreements (EA) and CEO compensation. Overall, our findings are broadly consistent with the predictions of Klein, Crawford, and Alchian (1978) that an EA is used to induce CEOs to make firm-specific human capital...
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