IPO firms with high-powered CEO incentive contracts have lower failure rates in the aftermarket. Economically, an interquartile change in the distribution of CEO pay translates in a reduction of the failure risk probability by approximately 21%. The Pay Gap between the CEO and its subordinate...

Let IPO volume simply be denoted `volume'. This study finds low and high volume regimes within stock markets are, respectively characterized by low or high valuation uncertainty risk, with outcome underpricing is higher yet more disparate in context of high volume regimes. This finding questions...

We provide a characterization of comparative weak risk aversion and comparative RDEU risk aversion for RDEU preferences and, in particular, we correct a claim made by Quiggin (1993) regarding comparative RDEU risk aversion. We then apply the analysis of comparative risk aversion to a problem of...