Research Question/Issue: Does inside debt compensation affect previous thought on compensation effects in IPOs? What explains variation in compensation when a company goes public? What is the composition of CEO compensation in an IPO? What types of compensation may be more optimal for or are...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine jointly the CEO inside debt and firm debt to further investigate the compensation incentives on risky decision-making and the resulting financial policy decisions concerning the debt structure of the firm. Design/methodology/approach: Using S&P 1500 data from...

Generally, students would like more time in class to understand nuances of material for a variety of reasons. However, current scheduling limits terms to durations ranging from three to 16 weeks. This paper discusses an experimental system allowing learning outcomes to occur beyond normal...

We examine overconfident CEO directors and find they attend more board meetings, are more likely to serve on the nominating or the compensation committee, have more independent directorships, and foster higher attendance rates on boards. Boards with overconfident directors are more likely to...

This paper analyzes the CEO incentives of inside debt in the form of deferred equity compensation in the context of M&A decisions. This study runs statistical regressions on the likelihood of a merger, whether the deal is diversifying, how much stock is used to pay for the deal, and the relative...

I analyze both CEO inside debt and firm debt jointly to further investigate the compensation incentives on risky decision-making and the resulting financial policy decisions concerning the debt structure of the firm. I find larger firms with high CEO inside debt tend to diversify, as calculated...

Generally, students would like more time in class to understand nuances of material for a variety of reasons. However, current scheduling limits terms to durations ranging from three to 16 weeks. This paper discusses an experimental system allowing learning outcomes to occur beyond normal...