Auflistung LIF-SAFE Working Papers nach Forschungsbereich "Corporate Finance"
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A Repeated Principal-Agent Model with On-the-Job Search
(2014-08-01)This paper analyzes how on-the-job search (OJS) by an agent impacts the moral hazard problem in a repeated principal-agent relationship. OJS is found to constitute a source of agency costs because efficient search incentives ... -
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 ... -
Compensation Schemes, Liquidity Provision, and Asset Prices: An Experimental Analysis
(2015-06-01)In an experimental setting in which investors can entrust their money to traders, we investigate how compensation schemes affect liquidity provision and asset prices. Investors face a trade-off between risk and return. At ... -
Competition in Treasury Auctions
(2016-02-01)We investigate the role of competition on the outcome of Austrian Treasury auctions. Austria's EU accession led to an increase in the number of banks participating in treasury auctions. We use structural estimates of ... -
Corporate Groups
(2014-09-22)This paper contrasts the recent European initiatives on regulating corporate groups with alternative approaches to the phenomenon. In doing so it pays particular regard to the German codified law on corporate groups as 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 ... -
Effects of Government Spending on Employment: Evidence from Winners and Runners-up in Procurement Auctions
(2018-05-01)To estimate demand for labor, we use a combination of detailed employment data and the outcomes of procurement auctions, and compare the employment of the winner of an auction with the employment of the second ranked firm ... -
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 ... -
Financial Constraints and Corporate EnvironmentalResponsibility
(2018-09-13)This paper analyzes the effect of financial constraints on firms' corporate social responsibility. Exploiting heterogeneity in firms' exposure to a monetary policy shock in the U.S., which reduced financial constraints for ... -
Financial Constraints, Newly Founded Firms and the Financial Crisis
(2017-12-14)This paper aims to analyze the effects of financial constraints and the financial crisis on the financing and investment policies of newly founded firms. Thereby, the analysis adds important new insights on a crucial segment ... -
Freedom of Contract and Financial Stability through the lens of the Legal Theory of Finance
(2016-08-28)This paper is the outcome of a related broader project, exploring the explanatory power of the Legal Theory of Finance, which proposes a new institution-based analytical framework for the analysis of phenomena of financial ... -
Germany's Reluctance to Regulate Related Party Transactions
(2018-02-15)Germany Inc. was an idiosyncratic form of industrial organization that put financial institutions at the center. This paper argues that the consumption of private benefits in related party transactions by these key agents ... -
Governance in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Venture Capitalists vs. Technology Parks
(2017-03-09)We argue two alternative routes that lead entrepreneurial start-ups to acquisition outcomes instead of liquidation. On one hand, acquisitions can come about through the control route with external financers such as venture ... -
High-Frequency Trading and Price Informativeness
(2019-03-01)We study how the informativeness of stock prices changes with the presence of high-frequency trading (HFT). Our estimate is based on the staggered start of HFT participation in a panel of international exchanges. With HFT ... -
Incentive-Based Capital Requirements
(2018-05-02)This paper proposes a new regulatory approach that implements capital requirements contingent on executive incentive schemes. We argue that excessive risk-taking in the financial sector originates from the shareholder moral ... -
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 ... -
Interbank Networks and Backdoor Bailouts: Benefiting from other Banks' Government Guarantees
(2018-05-02)This paper explains why banks derive a benefit from being highly interconnected. We show that when banks are protected by government guarantees they can significantly increase their expected returns by channeling funds ... -
Local Peer Effects and Corporate Investment
(2018-07-07)We examine how a firms' investment behavior affects the investment of a neighboring firm. Economic theory yields ambiguous predictions regarding the direction of firm peer effects and consistent with earlier work, we find ...