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"We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm payout policy. Retail investors tend to hold local stocks and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically-varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in...
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"We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the … value, even with little or no external governance by investors. Internal governance works best when both top management and …
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"We measure the impact of individual managerial beliefs on corporate financing. First, managers who believe that their firm is undervalued view external financing as overpriced, especially equity. We show that such overconfident managers use less external finance and, conditional on accessing...
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"Hedge fund managers are compensated via management fees on the assets under management (AUM) and incentive fees … only paid via management fees, the manager optimally chooses time-invariant leverage to balance the size of allocation to … via both management and incentive fees, we show that (i) the high-powered incentive fees encourage excessive risk taking …
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