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Executive Compensation and Incentives: The Impact of Takeover Legislation

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Sendhil Mullainathan
Marianne Bertrand

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Paper provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics in its series Working papers with number 98-20.

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  2. Paul L. Joskow & Nancy L. Rose, 1994. "CEO Pay and Firm Performance: Dynamics, Asymmetries, and Alternative Performance Measures," NBER Working Papers 4976, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Pound, John, 1987. "The Effects of Antitakeover Amendments on Takeover Activity: Some Direct Evidence," Journal of Law & Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 30(2), pages 353-67, October.
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  1. Jenter, Dirk, 2004. "Executive Compensation, Incentives, and Risk," Working papers 4466-02, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Chilosi, Alberto & Damiani, Mirella, 2007. "Stakeholders vs. shareholders in corporate governance," MPRA Paper 2334, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  3. Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan, 1998. "Is There Discretion in Wage Setting? A Test Using Takeover Legislation," NBER Working Papers 6807, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Bar-Gill, Oren & Barzuza, Michal & Bebchuk, Lucian Arye, 2002. "The Market for Corporate Law," CEPR Discussion Papers 3553, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  8. Girma, Sourafel & Thompson, Steve & Wright, Peter, 2002. "Merger Activity and Executive Pay," CEPR Discussion Papers 3255, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  9. Eric Nowak & Michael H. Haid, 1999. "Executive compensation and the susceptibility of firms to hostile takeovers. An empirical investigation of the U.S. oil industry," Working Paper Series: Finance and Accounting 32, Department of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. [Downloadable!]
  10. Anthony P. Thirwall, 1972. "A Cross-Section Study of Population Growth and the Growth of Output and Per Capita Income in a Production Function Framework," Working Papers 406, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section.. [Downloadable!]
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  12. Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan, 2000. "Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do," Working Papers 810, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section.. [Downloadable!]
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