This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on the effects of CEO's share option remuneration and CEO's stock ownership on leasing. Financial contracting theory suggests that ownership structure is important determinant of capital structure, debt financing and leasing. Also, lease financing is...

This paper examines the conditions under which CEOs are able to affect the timing and the price of the stock options they are granted at the time of their firm's IPO. Contrary to Lowry and Murphy (2007) who do not find a relationship between IPO grants and IPO underpricing, this paper finds such...

This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...