Habib, Michel Antoine; Ljungqvist, Alexander P. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We examine the relation between firm value and managerial incentives in a sample of 1487 US firms in 1992-1997, for which the separation of ownership and control is complete. Unlike previous studies, we employ a measure of relative performance which compares a firm’s actual Tobin’s Q to the...