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Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian; Fried, Jesse - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 3, pp. 23-28
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Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2018
Golden parachutes have attracted much debate and substantial attention from investors and public officials for more than two decades, and the Dodd-Frank Act mandated a shareholder vote on any future adoption of a golden parachute by public firms. We analyze the relationship that golden...
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Clawback Provisions in Executive Compensation Contracts
Stark, Johanna - 2020
Clawbacks are contractual provisions in executive compensation contracts that allow for an ex post recoupment of variable pay if certain triggering conditions are met. As a result of regulatory responses to financial crises and corporate scandals as well as of growing shareholder pressure to...
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Executive Compensation : Populist Sentiments Hiding Social Values (Hebrew)
Ayal, Adi - 2010
the ashes, dominates public debate with strong statements regarding efficiency, justice, and what managers "deserve" - and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190088
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Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2011
This paper integrates and further develops the analysis of two discussion papers we circulated earlier, “Lucky CEOs” and “Lucky Directors.” Our study contributes to understanding the corporate governance determinants and implications of backdating practices during the decade of...
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Agency Costs in the Era of Economic Crisis – The Enhanced Connection between CEO Compensation and Corporate Cash Holdings
Ganor, Mira - 2012
This Article reports results of an empirical study that suggests that the current economic crisis has changed managerial behavior in the US in a way that may impede economic recovery. The study finds a strong, statistically significant and economically meaningful, positive correlation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114205
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Comparing CEO Employment Contract Provisions : Differences between Australia and the U.S
Hill, Jennifer G. - 2020
imbalance between managers and shareholders. A comparative analysis of the kind undertaken in our study provides an additional …
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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Fried, Jesse - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
instrument for addressing the agency problem between managers and shareholders but also as part of the agency problem itself … managers. As a result, managers wield substantial influence over their own pay arrangements, and they have an interest in … reducing the saliency of the amount of their pay and the extent to which that pay is de-coupled from managers’ performance. We …
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Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Fried, Jesse; Walker, David I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
constraints that act on these processes, leave managers with considerable power to shape their own pay arrangements. Examining the …
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Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Fried, Jesse; Walker, David I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper develops an account of the role and significance of rent extraction in executive compensation. Under the optimal contracting view of executive compensation, which has dominated academic research on the subject, pay arrangements are set by a board of directors that aims to maximize...
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