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Corporate governance and incentive contracts : historical evidence from a legal reform
Bayer, Christian (contributor); Burhop, Carsten (contributor) - 2008
This paper proposes to exploit a reform in legal rules of corporate governance to identify contractual incentives from … institutional environment, the reform of the German joint-stock companies act in 1884. We analyze a sample of executive pay for 46 … firms for the years 1870 to 1911. In 1884, a law reform substantially enhanced corporate control, strengthened the …
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Cartels, managerial incentives, and productive efficiency in German coal mining, 1881-1913
Burhop, Carsten (contributor);  … - 2008
significantly correlated with productive efficiency, whereas the debt-equity ratio did not influence it. -- Economic history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730769
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An activist view of CEO compensation
Baum, Alex; Hale, Robert; Morfit, Mason; Larcker, David F. - 2017
Understanding CEO compensation plans is a continuing challenge for directors and investors. The disclosure of these plans is dictated by SEC rules that rely heavily on the “fair value” of awards at the time they are granted. The problem with these numbers is that they are static and do not...
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Clawback provisions and firm risk
Babenko, Ilona; Bennett, Benjamin; Bizjak, John M.; … - 2019
Panel OLS and GMM-IV estimates indicate that executives respond to the adoption of a compensation clawback provision by decreasing firm risk. The mechanisms that transmit incentives to decisions and decisions to risk appear to be more conservative investment and financial policies and preemptive...
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Executive compensation and stock options : an inconvenient truth
Danthine, Jean-Pierre; Donaldson, John B. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003740959
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Executive compensation and stock options : an inconvenient truth
Danthine, Jean-Pierre; Donaldson, John B. - 2008
to be incompatible with the fact that the bulk of many high-proffile managers' compensation is in the form of various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961700
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How do labor representatives affect incentive orientation of executive compensation?
Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2016
Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
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Corporate tax avoidance and high powered incentives
Desai, Mihir A. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Corporate tax avoidance and high powered incentives
Desai, Mihir A.; Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2004
"This paper analyzes the links between corporate tax avoidance, the growth of high-powered incentives for managers, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002053456
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The growth of performance-based managerial pay : implications for corporate finance, regulatory policy, and corporate governance
Jolls, Christine M. - 1995
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