Investment Decision
Working Paper
Fund Managers under Pressure: Rationale and Determinants of Secondary Buyouts
The fastest growing segment of private equity deals are secondary buyouts - sales from one PE fund to another. Using a comprehensive sample of leveraged buyouts we investigate whether SBOs are value-maximizing, or reflect opportunistic behavior....Read more
Overconfidence, Effort, and Investment
The theoretical finance literature predicts that overconfident managers overinvest in risky projects and exert more effort to learn about potentially value-enhancing projects in comparison with their unbiased peers. We test this prediction...Read more
Ownership, Investment and Governance: The Costs and Benefits of Dual Class Shares
In this paper we show that dual-class shares can be an answer to agency conflicts rather than a result of agency conflicts. When a firm issues voting shares to raise funds, an incumbent manager?s control rights are diluted. This increases the...Read more
The Pension System and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy
This article explores the influence of the pension system on corporate governance, which has so far received little attention in the corporate law literature. While the shareholder-centric view of corporate governance is strong today, this is a...Read more
Feedback Effects, Asymmetric Trading, and the Limits to Arbitrage
We analyze strategic speculators' incentives to trade on information in a model where firm value is endogenous to trading, due to feedback from the financial market to corporate decisions. Trading reveals private information to managers and...Read more
Family Firms and Investments
Family firms are a widespread control structure in most countries, especially among smaller firms. A vast literature addresses the question of whether they are performing better or worse than comparable non family firms, with not entirely...Read more
Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms
Entrepreneurs may be legally bound to bequeath a minimal stake to non-controlling heirs. The size of this stake can reduce investment in family firms, by reducing the future income they can pledge to external financiers. Using a purpose-built...Read more
