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We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive …
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We inquire whether public opinion influences executive compensation. During 1992-2008 the negativity of press coverage of CEO pay varied significantly, with stock options being the most discussed pay component. We find that after more negative press coverage of CEO pay firms reduce option grants...
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This article provides a comprehensive assessment of private firms' financing sources and their relation with financial reporting practices. We consider debt financing (bank financing, leasing, and government guarantees), equity financing (family ownership, government ownership, employee...
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This article provides a comprehensive assessment of private firms' financing sources and their relation with financial reporting practices. We consider debt financing (bank financing, leasing, and government guarantees), equity financing (family ownership, government ownership, employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646418
We examine how an increase in stock option grants affects CEO risk-taking. The overall net effect of option grants is theoretically ambiguous for risk-averse CEOs. To overcome the endogeneity of option grants, we exploit institutional features of multi- year compensation plans, which generate...
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We investigate whether the flexibility in making contributions towards defined benefit pension plans sponsored by firms in the United States allows managers to save cash and increase investments. Firms invest more at higher levels of pension deficit, defined as pension benefit obligations less...
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The objective of this paper is to define the relationship between a set of factors and CEO compensation that will enable companies to imply better corporate governance practices in their management process. Developed econometric model is tested on the data of US telecom companies for the period...
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contracts do not provide strong enough incentives to increase value (i.e., there is too little pay-for-performance); (3) options …) CEOs have too much freedom to unwind their incentives. This negative, and increasingly mainstream, assessment of the state … holdings provide powerful incentives to increase value, and this is true regardless of whether or not annual pay varies with …
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The effects of private equity buyouts on employment, productivity, and job reallocation vary tremendously with macroeconomic and credit conditions, across private equity groups, and by type of buyout. We reach this conclusion by examining the most extensive database of U.S. buyouts ever...
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We exploit the U.S. grant of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to China as a quasi-policy shock to corporate demand for targets with China-related business experience, and investigate how such a shock affects U.S. acquirers’ target selection and performance. U.S. firms are more...
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