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competition is weak and public pension fund ownership is low as well. By contrast, when industry competition is intense and …/or public pension fund ownership is high, ATPs do not hurt bidder returns. Conclusions: The complementarity among ATPs, excess … cash, industry competition, and public pension fund ownership suggests that ATPs per se do not necessarily result in value …
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competition is weak and public pension fund ownership is low as well. By contrast, when industry competition is intense and …/or public pension fund ownership is high, ATPs do not hurt bidder returns. Conclusions: The complementarity among ATPs, excess … cash, industry competition, and public pension fund ownership suggests that ATPs per se do not necessarily result in value …
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This research examines the relationships between tournament-based incentives and corporate cash holdings and the value of cash. We find robust evidence that tournament-based incentives are positively related to cash holdings and the value of cash. Moreover, the effect of tournament-based...
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The value of corporate cash holdings has increased significantly in recent decades. On average, one dollar of cash is valued at $0.61 in the 1980s, $1.04 in the 1990s, and $1.12 in the 2000s. This increase is predominantly driven by the investment opportunity set and cash-flow volatility, as...
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The objective of the study is to contemplate the effectiveness of hierarchical CEO succession and hierarchical CEO succession intensity on SOEs & Non-SOEs performance separately. Meanwhile, the impact of hierarchical CEO succession on cash holdings has also been analysed. The authenticated data...
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Textbook theory assumes that firm managers maximize the net present value of future cash flows. But when you ask them, the people running large public corporations say that they are maximizing something else entirely: earnings per share (EPS). Perhaps this is a mistake. No matter. We take...
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U.S. firms currently hold a $2trillion cash stockpile. We examine if cash stockpiles fuel cash acquisitions by studying the method of payment decision for cash-rich firms. Surprisingly, cash-rich firms are 23% less likely to make cash bids than stock bids, relative to firms that are not cash...
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This paper documents an association between firms’ cash holdings and CEO’s pay performance sensitivity. Controlling whether CEOs are both president, firm size, leverage, auditor specialization and the ratio of independent board, we find that firms with more cash holdings are more likely to...
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initiates this line of research by studying CEO pension arrangements in a sample of 237 large capitalization firms. Among our … the balance shifting systematically away from equity and toward debt as CEOs growolder; that annual increases in pension … CEOs with high debt-based incentives manage their firms conservatively to reduce default risk; and that pension plan …
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