Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess how much difference it makes for US firms to use the two‐factor ICAPM to estimate their cost of equity instead of a single‐factor CAPM. Design/methodology/approach – For a large sample of US companies, the authors compare the empirical...

We examine empirically the relations between REIT insider ownership and several measures of performance and management decisions. Three variables exhibit U-shaped or inverted U-shaped profiles, with a critical turn at about 30% ownership. Incentive alignment appears to dominate above 30%...

This paper examines the relationship between ownership structure, other corporate governance variables, and firm risk-taking and returns for the period 1990 to 2003. Our results suggest that the persistent, underlying relationship between insider ownership and risk-taking is U-shaped for both...