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The current financial crisis is a crisis of theory as well. The dominant theory of financial markets, the efficient … apply an economic theory of nonprofits to the NYSE, and NASDAQ, to identify the incentives of Exchange members and the …
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We develop a tractable general equilibrium framework providing a direct mapping between (i) the supply and demand for … capital supply, while firm profitability drives demand. Heterogeneity in supply and demand factors determines the sign of the …, investment, and profitability. We estimate the supply and demand schedules of over 4,000 U.S. firms and verify that the model …
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We study an optimal contracting problem between shareholders and managers when managers' effort choices are hidden but on which stock market prices reveal some information. When the stock market rewards winners and punishes losers within an industry, stock-based incentive generates a tournament...
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Models based on asymmetric information predict that debt is least sensitive to private information and cannot explain the illiquidity of corporate debt in secondary markets. We analyze security design with moral hazard and offer a new explanation. First, the optimal compensation contract creates...
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This paper studies the role of optimal managerial compensation in reducing uncertainty about manager reporting objectives. It is shown that, paradoxically, firm owners allow managers with higher propensity to manipulate the short-term stock price to push for higher-powered and more short-term...
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This paper studies the role of voluntary disclosure in crowding out independent research about firm value. In the model, when inside firm owners make it easier for outside investors to obtain inexpensive biased information from the manager, then investors rely less on costly unbiased research....
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