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Risk Aversion and Effort in an Incentive Pay Scheme with Multiplicative Noise: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Zubanov, Zubanov, N.V. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2012
) setting a performance target will weaken the negative risk aversion--effort link. The data from a real-effort laboratory …
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How do family ties, boards and regulation affect pay at the top? Evidence for Indian CEOs
Fagernäs, Sonja - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006
performance and both CEO and firm specific fixed effects. The hypothesis is that corporate governance, ownership structures and … component and the performance-related component of pay. In contrast, the presence of outside representatives on the board - non … lowers the level of pay and that of non-executives ties pay more to firm performance. A further timely finding is that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162824
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Determinants of the use of financial incentives in investment banking
Nash, David - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003
This paper examines the use of incentive pay schemes within the financial services sector in London. Various theories of wage determination are reviewed with particular attention placed on the principal-agent literature as a framework for analysing the use of incentive pay. This is combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688017
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The Impact of Foreign Corporate Ownership on Downsizing and Labour Cost
Chai, D.H. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010
related to labour cost but this positive effect is significantly weaker for firms with weak financial performance than those … with strong financial performance. These results provide support to the view that foreign investors take both monitoring …
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The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Executive Pay in the United Kingdom
Guest, Paul - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007
We examine the impact of acquisitions on executive pay in UK acquirers over 1984-2001. For the overall sample, which includes foreign, domestic, public and private targets, there is a significant transitory pay increase. Pay changes are not affected by target nationality or organizational form,...
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Law and Financial Development: What we are learning from time-series evidence
Armour, J.; Deakin, S.; Mollica, V.; Siems, M.M. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010
The legal origins hypothesis is one of the most important and influential ideas to emerge in the social sciences in the past decade. However, the empirical base of the legal origins claim has always been contestable, as it largely consists of cross-sectional datasets which provide evidence on...
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An End to Consensus? The Selective Impact of Corporate Law Reform on Financial Development
Deakin, S.; Sarkar, P.; Singh, A. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2011
Legal origins theory suggests that law reform, strengthening shareholder and creditor rights, should enhance financial development. We use recently created datasets measuring legal change over time in a sample of 25 developing, developed and transition countries to test this claim. We find that...
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Rethinking Receivership
Armour, John; Frisby, Sandra - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000
A popular perception is that administrative receivers and their appointors hold 'too much' power in relation to troubled companies. Consideration of this issue is timely, because insolvency law is currently under review. We argue although the law's formal structure is imbalanced, this can...
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Shareholder Primacy and the Trajectory of UK Corporate Governance
Armour, John; Deakin, Simon; Konzelmann, Suzanne J. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003
Core institutions of UK corporate governance, in particular those relating to takeovers, board structure and directors’ duties, are strongly orientated towards a norm of shareholder primacy. Beyond the core, in particular at the intersection of insolvency and employment law, stakeholder...
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It Takes Two To Tango: an empirical tale of distressed firms and assisting banks
de Jong, de Jong, A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
We study the restructuring process of small and medium-sized firms in financial distress. We have a unique dataset with firms in the Netherlands that are guided in their restructuring effort by banks. Part of our dataset consists of firms that successfully restructure their operations and...
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