CEO

CEO duality – the practice of combining the roles of the CEO and chairman of the board – has been the topic of one of the longest debates

Rising executive compensation has been subject of fierce public debates over the last decades.

We study if a CEO’s equity-based compensation affects the expected value generation in takeovers.

Two laboratory experiments show that investors perceive a CEO to be more committed to honesty when the CEO resisted, at a personal cost,

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on executive compensation.

There is considerable concern about the conflict of interest between the CEO and the shareholders when a firm is a target for an acquisit

Economic models routinely assume firms maximize shareholder value; but common law legal systems only require that officers and directors