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Equity pay has been the primary component of managerial compensation packages at US public firms since the early 1990s. Using a comprehensive sample of top executives from 1992-2020, we estimate to what extent they trade firm equity held in their portfolios to neutralize increments in ownership...
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We investigate patterns of abnormal stock performance around insider trades and option exercises on the Dutch market. Listed firms in the Netherlands have a long tradition of employing many anti-shareholder mechanisms limiting shareholders rights. Our results imply that insider transactions are...
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Das internationale Bankensystem stand in den vergangenen Jahren im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Bei der Diskussion möglicher Optionen zur Verbesserung der Finanzsystemstabilität rückt zunehmend die Corporate Governance in Banken in den Fokus. Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht widmet...
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This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-sponsored SoP proposals. Adopting SoP leads to large increases...
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regarding severance payments for members of the management board of over 20 % from the recommendation section 4.2.3 para 4 of … models recommendations are derived how to change the arrangement of the severance caps for members of the management board. …
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Diese Studie untersucht die Akzeptanz der Empfehlung 4.2.3 Abs. 4 S. 1 Deutscher Corporate Governance Kodex zwischen 2010 und 2014 bei allen CDAX-Unternehmen. Dazu wurden die Entsprechenserklärungen ausgewertet, Entsprechens- und Abweichungsquoten bestimmt, Abweichungsgründe ermittelt und...
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contributed to the rise in executive pay in Germany. Lastly, we show that CEOs in the banking sector are provided with incentives …The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypothesis in …
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contributed to the rise in executive pay in Germany. Lastly, we show that CEOs in the banking sector are provided with incentives …The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypotheses in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282632
This paper proposes an implicit control mechanism of managers inside the firm. We argue that the need to motivate workers may make it beneficial for a self-interested, short-sighted manager to pursue long-run viability of the firm. When the firm is in a stable environment, this implicit control...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of governance transparency. In our model, entrepreneurs optimally decide the precision of their earning reporting by trading off the possibility of expropriating profits against the capacity to attract external funding.We find that information is only...
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