Publications

This paper estimates the effect of corporate governance provisions on shareholder value and long-term outcomes in S&P1500 firms. We apply a regression...

This paper examines the relationship between executive cash compensation and company performance for a sample of large UK companies, focusing in...

Recent studies show that single-quarter institutional herding positively predicts short-term returns. Motivated by the theoretical herding literature...

Although Britain’s banking crisis received wide coverage in the media, this did not provide the public with any clearly structured account of its...

We offer a rational expectations model of the dynamics of innovative industries. The fundamental value of innovations is uncertain and one must learn...

We propose a new continuous-time principal-agent model to study the optimal timing of stock-based incentives, when the effects of managerial actions...

We study the value of information in a competitive economy in which agents trade in asset markets to reallocate risk. We characterize the kinds of...

This chapter offers a new understanding of how financial markets work. The key departure from conventional theory is to recognize that investors do...

In a moral hazard setting with a performance additive in effort and a symmetrically distributed noise term, I show that compensation contracts which...

We investigate the effect of the ability of “non-traditional” funds to short-sell the equity of their debtors. This enables the funds to vote on the...

We examine whether a bidder can use tender o§er terms to signal post-takeover security benefits. Neither restricted bids nor cash-equity offers allow...

We survey theoretical developments in the literature on the limits of arbitrage. This literature investigates how costs faced by arbitrageurs can...

In principle, credit rating agencies are supposed to be impartial observers that bridge the gap between private information of issuers and the...