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We address two aspects of board dynamics — group-think and teamwork — that both arise from increased director overlap. Overlap captures the extent of common service by board directors. Greater overlap can lead to excessive cohesiveness of the group and thus group-think, where the desire for...
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We examine how monitoring costs and costs of financial distress affect the use of performance pricing provisions in bank loan contracts. We find that firms that are easier to monitor, such as those with better accounting quality, lower information opacity, or a stronger prior relationship with...
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Investing in M&A targets before they receive offers yields high returns on the announcement day. Ours is the first paper to document targeting ability, which is the ability of fund managers to persistently generate such returns in excess of the returns their benchmarks earn from holding targets....
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