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This paper studies the first day return of 227 carve-outs during 1996-2013. I find that the first day return of newly issued subsidiary stocks is explained by the reporting distortions in the pre IPO period, conditioned on whether the executives and directors of the subsidiary received stock...
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In this case study, the former CEO of a large telecommunication company filed a lawsuit against her former employer that alleged that the company's contract breach resulted in the loss ESO grants and diminished the value of the vested ESOs that she held at the time of the alleged contract...
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We study experimental markets in which participants face incentives modeled upon those prevailing in markets for … prices are close to intrinsic value, the effect of incentives is mild. However under conditions in which markets are prone to … bubble, mispricing is greatly exacerbated by incentives. Even in experienced markets, prices climb to levels clearly …
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Using the details of vesting terms, we document that stock options granted in high investor sentiment periods tend to have shorter vesting periods and durations, and are more likely to vest completely or have a significantly larger fraction vested within one year of the grant date, relative to...
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It is well understood that the equity of an insolvent firm can trade for a positive price so long as there is some positive probability that the firm will become solvent at some future point. Currently, however, this insight exists in the case law in an informal sense, while its use in the...
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We study the effect of financial market frictions on managerial compensation. We embed a market microstructure model into an otherwise standard contracting framework, and analyze optimal pay-for-performance when managers use information they learn from the market in their investment decisions....
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