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When a firm has external debt and monitoring by shareholders is essential, managerial bonuses are shown to be an … shareholders, but also between creditors and monitoring shareholders. A negative relation between corporate bond yields and …
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We document that firms whose compensation peers experience weak say on pay votes reduce CEO compensation following those votes. Reductions reflect proxy adviser concerns about peers' compensation contracts and are stronger when CEOs receive excess compensation, when they compete more closely...
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This paper investigates interactions between two central corporate governance mechanisms: shareholder rights and managerial ownership. I find that the effect of managerial ownership on firm value crucially depends on shareholder rights. Managerial ownership enhances firm value when shareholder...
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Using hand-collected data on CEO appointments during shareholder activism campaigns, this study examines whether shareholder involvement in CEO recruiting affects frictions in CEO hiring decisions. The results indicate that appointments of CEOs who are recruited with shareholder activist...
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Using the most recent data available, I examine the influence of large shareholders and institutional investors on …
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Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at … interest in increasing incentive-based compensation to avoid management's excessive risk taking and short-run oriented …
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Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that interests of labor may well – like that of shareholders – aim at …
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We evaluate whether management risk, coming from uncertainty about management's value added, affects firms' default … spreads all increase at the time of management turnover, when management risk is highest, and decline over the first three … years of CEO tenure. The effects increase with the prior uncertainty about the new management. These results are consistent …
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Theory posits that managerial holdings of debt (“inside debt”) align managers' incentives with those of outside debtholders. Executive pensions, which consist of ERISA-qualified rank-and-file (RAF) plans and Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans (SERPs), and other deferred compensation...
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