1.
Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 3, No. 4, 1976
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 19 Jul 1998
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads
130,972
2.
Company Valuation Methods
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 22 Jul 2001
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
62,165
3.
Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function
Tuck Business School Working Paper No. 01-09; Harvard NOM Research Paper No. 01-01; Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 00-058
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 11 Apr 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
Downloads
46,988
4.
Agency Cost of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers
American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, May 1986
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 25 Mar 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
Downloads
44,411
5.
Corporate Governance and Control
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 02/2002
Number of pages: 128
Posted: 31 Oct 2002
Working Paper Series
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB), Columbia Business School - Department of Economics and Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
Downloads
40,074
6.
Integrity: Without it Nothing Works
Rotman Magazine: The Magazine of the Rotman School of Management, pp. 16-20, Fall 2009, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-042, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 09-04, Simon School Working Paper No. FR 10-01
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 22 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
Downloads
37,061
7.
Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: Ten Methods and Nine Theories
EFMA 2002 London Meetings
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 14 May 2004
Last Revised: 28 May 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
36,718
8.
Separation of Ownership and Control
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, and Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 26, June 1983
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads
36,139
9.
Value Based Management: Economic Value Added or Cash Value Added?
FWC AB Study No. 1997:3
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 05 Apr 1999
Working Paper Series
Weissenrieder & Co AB
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34,179
10.
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009
Downloads
33,095
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 783-827, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2009
Downloads
33,095
11.
Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 27 Sep 2004
Working Paper Series
Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University
Downloads
29,324
12.
Equity Risk Premiums (ERP): Determinants, Estimation and Implications – The 2013 Edition
Number of pages: 114
Posted: 24 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
26,983
13.
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. 107-155, February 2003
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 12 Sep 2001
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Yale School of Management
There are 3 versions of this paper
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. 107-155, February 2003
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 12 Sep 2001
Downloads
26,939
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
NBER Working Paper No. w8449
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 26 Aug 2001
Last Revised: 23 Oct 2010
Downloads
442
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1, February 2003
Posted: 13 Feb 2003
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26,939
14.
Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value
Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Working Paper No.
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 01 Feb 1997
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value
Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Working Paper No.
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 01 Feb 1997
Downloads
26,608
Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value
Journal of Finance, Vol. 53 No. 3, June 1998
Posted: 28 Jul 1998
Downloads
26,608
15.
Métodos de valoración de empresas (Company Valuation Methods)
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 15 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
26,078
16.
Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, What are the Problems, and How to Fix Them
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 04-28; ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 44/2004
Number of pages: 116
Posted: 05 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business
Downloads
26,015
17.
Market Risk Premium Used in 82 Countries in 2012: A Survey with 7,192 Answers
IESE Business School Working Paper No. WP-1059-E
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 16 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School, IESE Business School and IESE
Downloads
25,511
18.
Optimal Capital Allocation Using RAROC and EVA
Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 11 Sep 1998
Accepted Paper Series
Vienna University of Economics and Business and Vienna University of Economics and Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Optimal Capital Allocation Using RAROC and EVA
Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 11 Sep 1998
Downloads
23,923
Optimal Capital Allocation Using Raroc and Eva
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4169
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 19 Jan 2004
Downloads
61
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23,923
19.
WACC: Definition, Misconceptions and Errors
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 05 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
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23,241
20.
Managerial Compensation and Capital Structure Under Asymmetric Information
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 02 Mar 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Warwick - Finance Group
There are 2 versions of this paper
Managerial Compensation and Capital Structure Under Asymmetric Information
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 02 Mar 2007
Downloads
22,995
Downloads
22,995
21.
A Survey of Behavioral Finance
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 04 Oct 2002
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
A Survey of Behavioral Finance
NBER Working Paper No. w9222
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 19 Sep 2002
Last Revised: 29 Oct 2010
Downloads
1,081
Downloads
22,871
22.
Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 13 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 07 May 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business
Downloads
22,692
23.
Índice Libro Valoración de Empresas y Sensatez (Company Valuation and Common Sense)
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 28 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 25 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
22,524
24.
Country Risk: Determinants, Measures and Implications - The 2015 Edition
Number of pages: 97
Posted: 15 Jul 2015
Last Revised: 01 Aug 2015
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
22,282
25.
Endogeneity in Empirical Corporate Finance
Simon School Working Paper No. FR 11-29
Number of pages: 97
Posted: 28 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 06 Oct 2012
Working Paper Series
The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads
21,561
26.
Executive Compensation
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 19 May 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
19,611
27.
Self Interest, Altruism, Incentives, and Agency Theory
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal Of Applied Corporate Finance, Summer 1994
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 05 Oct 1994
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
Downloads
19,587
28.
Three Residual Income Valuation Methods and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 16 Jan 2002
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
19,377
29.
Board Models in Europe - Recent Developments of Internal Corporate Governance Structures in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 18/2004, European Company and Financial Law Review, pp. 135-168, 2004, Company & Securities Law Review, Vol. 1, pp. 217-245, 2005, VOC 1602-2004: 400 YEARS OF COMPANY LAW, Ella Gepken-Jager, Gerard van Solinge, Levinus Timmerman, eds., Deventer (Kluwer), 2005
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 20 Jan 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
Downloads
19,232
30.
International Corporate Governance
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 05/2003; and Tuck-JQFA Contemporary Corporate Governance Issues II Conference
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 30 Jul 2002
Working Paper Series
University of Pittsburgh - Katz School of Business and Purdue University
Downloads
18,594
31.
The Worldwide Equity Premium: A Smaller Puzzle
Chapter 11 of R Mehra (Ed), Handbook of the Equity Risk Premium. Elsevier, 2008, pages 467–514, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper; EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings Paper,
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 17 Mar 2006
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
Downloads
18,383
32.
Trade-Off and Pecking Order Theories of Debt
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 22 Feb 2005
Last Revised: 11 Dec 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance
Downloads
17,998
33.
Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 28 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 28 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Downloads
17,988
Ten Badly Explained Topics in Most Corporate Finance Books
IESE Business School Working Paper No. 954
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 07 Jun 2012
Downloads
977
Downloads
17,988
34.
…and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
Number of pages: 101
Posted: 17 Apr 2013
Last Revised: 21 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Purdue University and University of Oklahoma
Downloads
17,848
35.
Relationship between Working Capital Management and Profitability of Listed Companies in the Athens Stock Exchange
Journal of Financial Management and Analysis, Vol. 19, No. 1, January-June 2006
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Accepted Paper Series
University of Macedonia - Accounting and Finance and University of Macedonia - Accounting and Finance
Downloads
17,803
36.
Valuation Using Multiples: Dispersion. Useful to compare and to negotiate
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 17 Jul 2001
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
17,535
37.
Market Risk Premium Used in 88 Countries in 2014: A Survey with 8,228 Answers
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 15 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 20 Jun 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School, University of Navarra, IESE Business School and University of Navarra - University of Navarra, Students
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17,270
38.
151 Trading Strategies
Z. Kakushadze and J.A. Serur. 151 Trading Strategies. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature, 1st Edition (2018), XX, 480 pp; ISBN 978-3-030-02791-9
Number of pages: 271
Posted: 13 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Quantigic Solutions LLC and University of CEMA
Downloads
17,165
39.
Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 23 Apr 1998
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads
17,147
40.
Valuation of Brands and Intellectual Capital
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 29 May 2001
Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
16,473
41.
Corporate Governance and Earnings Management
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 29 Jun 2001
Working Paper Series
University of Sfax, Université Laval - École de comptabilité and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Faculty of Economics and Management
Downloads
16,413
42.
Eclipse of the Public Corporation
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (Sept.-Oct. 1989), revised 1997.
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 03 May 1999
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School
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16,351
43.
Financial Accounting Information and Corporate Governance
JAE Rochester Conference April 2000
Number of pages: 115
Posted: 28 Apr 2002
Working Paper Series
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Financial Accounting Information and Corporate Governance
JAE Rochester Conference April 2000
Number of pages: 115
Posted: 28 Apr 2002
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16,132
Financial Accounting Information and Corporate Governance
Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 32, Nos. 1-3, December 2001
Posted: 25 Oct 2001
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16,132
44.
The History of Corporate Governance
OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey and Igor Filatotchev, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 54/2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 184/2012
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 22 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 20 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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16,087
45.
Cash Flow Is a Fact: Net Income Is Just an Opinion
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 25 Sep 2002
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
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15,914
46.
170 Errores en Valoraciones de Empresas (170 Errors in Company Valuations)
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 14 Feb 2007
Last Revised: 11 May 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
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15,829
47.
Valoración de empresas por descuento de flujos: 10 métodos y 7 teorías (Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting: 10 Methods and 7 Theories)
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 12 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
15,724
48.
Evidence on Eva
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 1999
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 20 Sep 1999
Accepted Paper Series
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Univeristy of San Diego - School of Business and Claremont Colleges - Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management
Downloads
15,712
49.
CEO Incentives: It's Not How Much You Pay, But How
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Harvard Business Review, No. 3, May-June 1990
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 12 Apr 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
CEO Incentives: It's Not How Much You Pay, But How
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Harvard Business Review, No. 3, May-June 1990
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 12 Apr 1999
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15,343
CEO Incentives - It's Not How Much You Pay, But How
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 64-76, Winter 2010
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 31 Mar 2010
Downloads
7
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15,343
50.
EVA and Cash Value Added Do NOT Measure Shareholder Value Creation
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 05 Jun 2001
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
15,215
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