This paper examines simultaneous incentive conflicts between shareholders, bondholders, and managers. Manager-owner conflicts arise from information asymmetries, and interact with traditional shareholder-bondholder conflicts (i.e., underinvestment and asset substitution conflicts). Managers are...

This article illustrates an incentive-aligning role of debt in the presence of optimal compensation contracts. Owing to information asymmetry, value-maximizing compensation contracts allow managerial rents following high investment outcomes. The manager has an incentive to increase these rents...

Traditional executive stock option plans allow fixed numbers of options to vest peri-odically, independent of stock price performance. Because such options may climb deep in-the-money long before the manager can exercise them, they can exacerbate risk aversion in project selection. Making the...

Why is the issuer's reservation price not disclosed in bookbuilding? We analyze the differential effect of reservation price disclosure on the underpricing required to elicit truthful indications of interest from investors. We find that a policy of disclosure would increase proceeds for firms...

We clarify and reinterpret the results of Benveniste and Wilhelm (1990) concerning the effect of a uniform price restriction on the proceeds of an IPO. If regular institutional investors are, on average, at least as well informed as ordinary retail investors then our corrected version of...

Cross-border mergers allow firms to alter the level of protection they provide to their investors, because target firms usually import the corporate governance system of the acquiring company by law. Therefore, cross-border mergers provide a natural experiment to analyze the effects of changes...