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Jared Wilson, Ralph Walking, David Becher Board Changes and the Director Labor Market: The Case of Mergers (14 Mar 2017) Available at ECGI: http://ecgi.global/working-paper/board-changes-and-director-labor-market-case-mergers
We provide benchmarks for board changes over time and in response to the evolution of firm structure. Boards are more stable in the modern era. At the same time, shifts made around mergers are substantial and significantly different than those at non-merging firms.
Changes to acquiring boards reflect firm needs, increased demand for executive and merger experience and bargaining between targets and acquirers, rather than agency motives. Conversely, director selection at non-merging firms is driven by general skills and diversity. Our analyses provide insight into the dynamic nature of board structure and characteristics demanded in the director labor market.
We establish that the labor market helps discipline asset managers via the impact of fund liquidations on their careers. Using hand-collected data on 1,948 professionals, we find that top managers working for funds liquidated after persistently...Read more
This paper documents important shifts in occupational composition following merger and acquisition (M&A) activity as well as increases in median wages and wage inequality. We propose M&As act as a catalyst for skill-biased and routine-...Read more
We study anti-competitive mergers in a dynamic model with noisy collusion. At each instant, firms either privately choose output levels or merge, which trades off benefits of avoiding price wars against the costs of merging. There are three...Read more
This paper investigates whether non-executive directors associated with good (bad) board decisions are subsequently rewarded (penalized) in the market for directors. This question is addressed by assessing whether the post-acquisition performance...Read more