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Empirical Evidence on Labor Profile Competencies of Mexican Immigrants to the United States of America

Herrera Aguado, Azucena Leticia - 2019

The immigration of Mexicans to the United States of America (USA) has led to migration policy problems in both … challenges and opportunities. This research examines the professional profile of Mexican immigrants to the USA. We describe the … Mexican immigrants to the USA. This Human Resource Management (HRM) Competency Model is a theoretical contribution to the …

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Globalization of Corporate Covernance: The American Influence on Dismissal Performance Sensitivity of European CEOs

Jungeilges, Jochen A.; Oxelheim, Lars; Randoy, Trond - 2010

This study examines how globalization of corporate governance practices influence the risk of European CEOs being dismissed. We argue that the harsh monitoring of the American corporate governance system spills over to the rest of the world as a result of this globalization. We focus on direct...

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What can we learn from privately held firms about executive compensation?

Cole, Rebel A. (contributor); Mehran, Hamid (contributor) - 2008

This study examines the determinants of CEO compensation using data from a nationally representative sample of privately held U.S. corporations. We find that (i) the pay-size elasticity is much larger for privately held firms than for the publicly traded firms on which previous research has...

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Bank CEO incentives and the credit crisis

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger; Stulz, René M. - 2009

We investigate whether bank performance during the recent credit crisis is related to chief executive officer (CEO) incentives before the crisis. We find some evidence that banks with CEOs whose incentives were better aligned with the interests of shareholders performed worse and no evidence...

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CEO preferences and acquisitions

Jenter, Dirk; Lewellen, Katharina - 2011 - This draft: December 2011

This paper explores the impact of target CEOs' retirement preferences on takeovers. Using retirement age as proxy for CEOs' private merger costs, we find strong evidence that target CEOs' preferences affect merger activity. The likelihood of receiving a successful takeover bid is sharply higher...

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Managerial overconfidence and corporate risk management

Adam, Tim R.; Fernando, Chitru S.; Golubeva, Evgenia - 2012

, also affects corporate risk management. We find that managers increase their speculative activities using derivatives …

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Spillovers inside conglomerates : incentives and capital

Duchin, Ran; Goldberg, Amir; Sosyura, Denis - 2015

Using hand-collected data on divisional managers at conglomerates, we find that a change in industry surplus in one …-firm spillovers increase when conglomerates have excess cash and when managers have more influence over its distribution, but decline …

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Is director industry experience valuable?

Meyerinck, Felix von; Oesch, David; Schmid, Markus M. - 2012 - This version: November 2012

We investigate whether investor reactions to the announcement of a new outside director appointment significantly depend upon the director's experience in the appointing firm's industry. Our sample includes 688 outside director appointments to boards of S&P 500 companies from 2005 to 2010. We...

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Do U.S. Insurance Firms Offer the 'Wrong' Incentives to Their Executives?

Milidonis, Andreas - 2011

We examine the relation between executive compensation and market-implied default risk for listed insurance firms from 1992-2007. Shareholders are expected to encourage managerial risk-sharing through equity-based incentive compensation. We find that long-term incentives and other share-based...

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Executive Compensation, Share Repurchases and Investment Expenditures : Econometric Evidence from U.S. Firms

Bhargava, Alok - 2011

This paper modeled the dynamic inter-relationships between average salary, bonus, and stock options granted to top executives of 700 U.S. firms using a merged ExecuComp and Compustat database. The effects of stock options granted and exercised on firms' share repurchases and research and...

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