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This paper examines the incentives from stock options for loss-averse employees subject to probability weighting …. Employing the certainty equivalence principle, I built on insights from Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) to derive a continuous … finding of standard models based on the Expected Utility Theory (EUT) framework that options value to a risk …
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incentives. Using various measures of performance, we find that European energy utilities link CEO compensation to firm …
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This paper studies the first day return of 227 carve-outs during 1996-2013. I find that the first day return of newly issued subsidiary stocks is explained by the reporting distortions in the pre IPO period, conditioned on whether the executives and directors of the subsidiary received stock...
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This paper provides a robust and practical framework for assessing performance fees. The fee valuation uses standard option pricing models and therefore does not require any expected return or alpha estimate. These features make our framework easy to use, robust, and widely applicable to a...
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This paper investigates the effects of board of director collusion on managerial incentives and firm values. Recent … governance policies, such as managerial pay, and curbing competition. We study a model where managers can exert unobservable cost …-cutting effort and investigate the consequences of and the incentives for coordinating managerial pay among corporate boards …
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We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which … through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …
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Standard principal-agent theory predicts that large firms should not use employee stock options and other stock …-based compensation to provide incentives to non-executive employees. Yet, business practitioners appear to believe that stock …-based compensation improves incentives, and mounting empirical evidence points to the same conclusion. This paper provides an explanation …
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This paper investigates the effects of board of director collusion on managerial incentives and firm values. Recent … governance policies, such as managerial pay, and curbing competition. We study a model where managers can exert unobservable cost …-cutting effort and investigate the consequences of and the incentives for coordinating managerial pay among corporate boards. …
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We provide evidence that CEO equity incentives, especially stock options, influence stock liquidity risk via …
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deliberately provide managers with risk-taking incentives to address risk-related agency conflicts and these incentives do not … effects of managers' stock holdings by showing that these incentives vary based on firms' value-risk tradeoffs … managers' incentive compensation packages. I find that shareholder value increases with risk and therefore managerial risk …
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