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managers' and debtholders' interests leading to favorable debt terms that motivate firms to raise debt to meet their capital …
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We examine the relation between chief executive officer (CEO) sensation seeking, which captures the desire for varied, novel, and complex personal sensations and experiences, and corporate debt contracting. Using pilot certificates as a proxy for the personality trait of sensation seeking, we...
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deviation reduces CSR investments by about 8.22%. Further analysis shows that managers raised CSR investments during the crisis …, consistent with the risk-mitigation view, where managers invest in CSR to reduce their risk exposure. However, managers appear to … of the CSR investments during the crisis is motivated by managers' own risk preference. Additional robustness checks …
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entrenchment of managers. This study examines whether or not this is consistent in the context of Nepal. The data were taken from …
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, then investors rely less on costly unbiased research. Managers are tempted to manipulate the firm stock price more, as a …, firm owners grant investors more access to managers that manipulate more strongly. An implication is that the firm cost of …
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This paper studies CEO re-appointment and succession events in listed family firms with an incumbent family CEO in … France, Germany and the UK over 2001-2016. The paper explores whether family firms with a founder CEO are more likely to … engage in earnings management pre-event than other family firms and non-family firms. Compared to non-family firms, family …
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This paper examines whether the risk-taking incentives induced by performance-based vesting (p-v) compensation influence bank loan contracting and credit ratings. Consistent with our risk-shifting hypothesis, we find that the p-v based compensation, as measured by the proportion of grant date...
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This paper analyzes the social connections between a firm's chief executive officer (CEO) and its chief financial officer (CFO). We focus on French educational networks and examine the corporate governance and performance of firms whose CEO and CFO attended the same elite college (Grande...
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Contrary to the entrenchment view of executive compensation, I find that CEOs with more control over the firm, proxied by higher equity ownership, have smaller compensation packages and are less likely to have severance contracts. Despite lower pay, these CEOs have longer tenure and their...
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The study investigates the influence of International Financial Reporting Standards adoption, using accounting performance measure, to determine the CEO pay in listed banks in Nigeria. The audited annual financial statements of listed banks in Nigeria covering the period of 2009–2015 are...
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