This paper examines the CEO compensation gap between gender and the female CEOs’ risk preference for incentive. Previous studies argue that women in upper positions receive lower compensation and incentive than men due to their risk-averse tendency. Meanwhile, the literature suggests no...

Purpose- The present study examines the impact of corporate governance (CG) on chief executive officer turnover (CTURN) and turnover-firm performance relationship (TPR) in Indian listed firms.Design/methodology/approach- Logistic (fixed-effect) regression using a balanced panel of the companies...

We examine whether criminal records of CEOs and rank-and-file employees are associated with firms’ likelihood of bankruptcy and whether lenders adjust their required cost of debt accordingly. We use a nationwide sample of private firms and criminal registers covering all firm employees. We...

Objective - The objective of this study was to investigate empirically the relationship between the compensation of chief executive officers (CEO) and a firm's performance in the banking industry and to examine if CEO compensation affects bank performance differently between banks with and...

We survey CFOs throughout the COVID-19 crisis to learn how multiple dimensions of corporate flexibility affect their short- and long-term business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in modulating firms’...

We use a hand-collected sample of 1,628 S&P 1500 firms and more than 12,000 executives to examine how family firms compensate nonfamily executives. Family firms comprise a large percentage of firms around the world, and most of their executives are not members of the founding family. Moreover,...

We study the association between chief financial officer (CFO), compared to chief executive officer (CEO), outside board directorships and their home firm strategic investments, capital management, and overall performance. Using a sample of firms from 2003-2014, we find only about nine percent...

How much does firm intangibility amplify CEOs' persistent private information and reduce firms' public listing propensity? We develop a model of competing public and private investors financing firms heterogeneously exposed to persistent private cashflows. Equilibrium financing is driven by...

Corporate divestiture represents an important component of a firm’s strategy. Divestment takes different forms and is usually undertaken for a variety of general and firm-specific reasons. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview and assessment of the current consensus on the...

Exploiting the implementation of the NOx Budget Trading Program (NBP), we show that a regional environmental regulation can have an unintended emission spillover effect from NBP-regulated power plants to manufacturing plants not regulated by the NBP via hikes in electricity prices. Our...