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This paper puts together the pieces of the puzzle of the ongoing regulatory competition debate on corporate law in the US. At early stages of this process Delaware conquered the leader’s place replacing Jersey, and forever locked-in there through peculiar manners. The States take as granted...
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This paper provides a theoretical model for explaining the separation of ownership and control in firms. An entrepreneur hires a worker, whose effort is necessary for running a project. The worker's effort determines the probability that the project will be completed on time, but the worker...
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percent and 1 percent of the within-firm wage distribution rise substantially. Instead, the effect on average wages is small …
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The level of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) pay responds asymmetrically to good and bad news about the CEO's ability. The average CEO captures approximately half of the surpluses from good news, implying CEOs and shareholders have roughly equal bargaining power. In contrast, the average CEO bears...
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This paper develops the building blocks for a legal theory of finance. LTF holds that financial markets are legally constructed and as such occupy an essentially hybrid place between state and market, public and private. At the same time, financial markets exhibit dynamics that frequently put...
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This paper develops the building blocks for a legal theory of finance. LTF holds that financial markets are legally constructed and as such occupy an essentially hybrid place between state and market, public and private. At the same time, financial markets exhibit dynamics that frequently put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065037
benefits investors in the funds in a rather paradoxical way: it limits their rights to control their managers and share in … their managers' profits and liabilities. Fund investors accept these limits because certain features common to most … encourage managers to operate multiple funds at the same time. These features diminish the importance of control and increase …
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their managers. Increases in managerial reservation wages lead to a reduction in corporate governance investments and a rise … in performance compensation since monitoring managers becomes less efficient. Using data on CEO compensation and …
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their managers. Increases in managerial reservation wages lead to a reduction in corporate governance investments and a rise … in performance compensation since monitoring managers becomes less efficient. Using data on CEO compensation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529476