Auflistung LIF-SAFE Working Papers nach JEL-Klassifizierung "G34"
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Abandon Ship: Deferred Compensation and Risk-Taking Incentives in Bad Times
(2017-05-23)We study how US chief executive officers (CEOs) invest their deferred compensation plans depending on the firm's profitability. By looking at the correlation between the CEO's return on these plans and the firm's stock ... -
Coinvestment and risk taking in private equity funds
(2016-01-01)Private equity fund managers are typically required to invest their own money alongside the fund. We examine how this coinvestment affects the acquisition strategy of leveraged buyout funds. In a simple model, where the ... -
Direct and Indirect Risk-Taking Incentives of Inside Debt
(2016-07-16)We develop a model of managerial compensation structure and asset risk choice. The model provides predictions about the relation between credit spreads and different compensation components. First, we show that credit ... -
Does Say on Pay Matter? Evidence from Germany
(2017-09-13)We analyze a hand-collected dataset of 1682 executive compensation packages at 34 firms included in the main German stock market index (DAX) for the years 2009-2017 in order to investigate the impact of the 2009 say on pay ... -
Entrepreneurial Spawning: Experience, Education, and Exit
(2016-02-29)We investigate the career dynamics of high-tech entrepreneurs by analyzing the exit choice of entrepreneurs: to act as a business angel, to found another firm, or to become dependently employed. Our detailed data from ... -
Insight Private Equity
(2013-06-18)We are able to shed light on the black box of restructuring tools private equity investors use to improve the operational performance of their portfolio companies. By building on previous work considering performance ... -
Performance Benefits of Tight Control
(2013-06-18)This study investigates the transition from being a listed company with a dispersed ownership structure to being a privately held company with a concentrated ownership structure. We consider a sample of private equity ... -
The Influence of Leveraged Buyouts on Target Firms’ Competitors
(2015-04-01)This paper analyzes the influence Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs) have on the operating performance of the LBO target companies’ direct competitors. A unique and hand-collected data set on LBOs in the United States in the period ...