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Equal opportunity rule vs. market rule in transfer of control: How can private benefits help to provide an answer?
de La Bruslerie, Hubert - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
Having been introduced in the European Union and in many other countries, the equal opportunity rule is seen as protecting investors in the event of a transfer of control. This rule should be analyzed in a context of appropriation of private benefits between the new controlling shareholders and...
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The equal opportunity rule in transfer of control : a signaling model
de La Bruslerie, Hubert - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
The equal opportunity rule is seen as protecting investors in the event of a transfer of control. In order to better analyze the consequence of such a rule, we need to account for the information asymmetry that exists between new controlling shareholders and outside investors with private...
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Equal opportunity rule vs. market rule in transfer of control: How can private benefits help to provide an answer?
de La Bruslerie, Hubert - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 23 (2013) C, pp. 88-107
Having been introduced in the European Union and in many other countries, the equal opportunity rule is seen as protecting investors in the event of a transfer of control. This rule should be analyzed in a context of appropriation of private benefits between the new controlling shareholders and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719618
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Executive Compensation and the Susceptibility of Firms to Hostile Takeovers - an Empirical Investigation of the U.S. Oil Industry
Haid, Michael H. - 2003
takeover imposed by the market for corporate control. We complement other empirical studies on managerial compensation and … consists of 51 firms in the U.S. oil industry from 1977 to 1994. Third, we employ ex ante measures of the threat of takeover at … the individual firm level which are superior to ex post measures like actual takeover occurrence or past incidence of …
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Wall Street and Main Street : What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?
Rauh, Joshua D. - 2008
We consider how much of the top end of the income distribution can be attributed to four sectors - top executives of non-financial firms (Main Street); financial service sector employees from investment banks, hedge funds, private equity funds, and mutual funds (Wall Street); corporate lawyers;...
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Managerial Capital and the Market for CEOs
Murphy, Kevin J. - 2007
This paper reconciles three pronounced trends in U.S. corporate governance: the increase in pay levels for top executives, the increasing prevalence of appointing CEOs through external hiring rather than internal promotions, and the increased prevalence of hiring outside CEOs with prior...
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The Effect of Employee Stock Options on the Evolution of Compensation in the 1990s
Mehran, Hamid - 2005
Between 1995 and 1998, actual growth in compensation per hour (CPH) accelerated from approximately 2 percent to 5 percent. Yet as the labor market continued to tighten in 1999, CPH growth unexpectedly slowed. This article explores whether this aggregate wage puzzle can be explained by changes in...
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The Problematic Case for Incentive Compensation in Bankruptcy
Levitin, Adam J. - 2007
This article is a response to Professor Yair Listokin's article: Paying for Performance in Bankruptcy: Why CEOs Should be Compensated with Debt. In this response, I argue that the Professor Listokin's proposal is for empowering creditors' committees to bind all unsecured creditors to compensate...
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Governance Matters : Convergence in Law and Practice Across the EU Executive Pay Faultline
Ferrarini, Guido - 2004
This paper considers the regulation of executive pay practices in listed companies in the European Union and the empirical evidence of pay practices, based on the FTSE Eurotop 300 membership's annual report for 2001. The analysis is placed in the context of the dispersed ownership/blockholding...
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Changes in the Structure of CEO Compensation and the Firm's Pay- Performance Sensitivity Following CEO Turnover
Blackwell, David W. - 2011
We document significant improvements in earnings and stock returns after CEO turnover. Compared to old CEOs, new CEOs derive more of their compensation from salary and bonus and option grants, but less from stock holdings. The sensitivity of pay to performance increases significantly after a...
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