Using a large panel of German manufacturing firms over the years 1986?1996, this study examines the impact of corporate governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show significantly higher productivity growth. Financial...

We examine how product market competition and financing constraints influence firm payout policy. Using Compustat firms for the period 1996 to 2017, we show that competition decreases firms' propensity to make payouts via dividends more if the firm is financially constrained. These results are...

We show theoretically and empirically that executives are paid less for their own firm's performance and more for their rivals' performance if an industry's firms are more commonly owned by the same set of investors. Higher common ownership also leads to higher unconditional total pay. We...

I use data on all public firms in the U.S. and their owners to construct a "modified Herfindahl-Hirschman Index" (MHHID) of market concentration that is based on the network of institutional ownership between rival firms. The new feature of my measure is that it uses a locally defined industry...

When one firm's strategy affects other firms' value, optimal executive incentives depend on whether shareholders have interests in only one or in multiple firms. Performance-sensitive contracts induce managerial effort to reduce costs, and lower costs induce higher output. Hence, greater...

We present a mechanism based on managerial incentives through which common ownershipaffects product market outcomes. Firm-level variation in common ownership causes varia-tion in managerial incentives and productivity across firms, which leads to intra-industryand intra-firm cross-market...

I use data on all public firms in the U.S. and their owners to construct a "modified Herfindahl-Hirschman Index" (MHHID) of market concentration that is based on the network of institutional ownership between rival firms. The new feature of my measure is that it uses a locally defined industry...

We present a mechanism based on managerial incentives through which common ownership affects product market outcomes. Firm-level variation in common ownership causes variation in managerial incentives and productivity across firms, which leads to intra-industry and intra-firm cross-market...

In corporate innovation, the type of institutional ownership matters. Using exogenous shocks from mergers of financial institutions, we identify two countervailing effects of common ownership on corporate innovation. Higher common ownership by focused, long-term dedicated institutional investors...