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
129,721
2.
Company Valuation Methods
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 22 Jul 2001
Last Revised: 19 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
61,222
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
46,428
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
43,873
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
39,848
6.
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: 12 Oct 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
36,182
7.
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
35,788
8.
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
35,638
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
Downloads
34,062
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
32,677
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 783-827, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2009
Downloads
32,677
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
28,806
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
26,866
13.
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
26,521
Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value
Journal of Finance, Vol. 53 No. 3, June 1998
Posted: 28 Jul 1998
Downloads
26,521
14.
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
26,434
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
NBER Working Paper No. w8449
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 26 Aug 2001
Last Revised: 23 Oct 2010
Downloads
436
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1, February 2003
Posted: 13 Feb 2003
Downloads
26,434
15.
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
25,784
16.
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
25,442
17.
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
25,089
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
23,889
Optimal Capital Allocation Using Raroc and Eva
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4169
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 19 Jan 2004
Downloads
61
Downloads
23,889
19.
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
22,970
Downloads
22,970
20.
WACC: Definition, Misconceptions and Errors
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 05 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
22,766
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
1,046
Downloads
22,631
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
22,449
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
21,923
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
21,842
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
21,052
26.
Executive Compensation
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 19 May 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
19,476
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
19,475
28.
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
19,132
29.
Three Residual Income Valuation Methods and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 16 Jan 2002
Last Revised: 19 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
19,132
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
18,480
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
18,268
32.
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
17,883
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
964
Downloads
17,883
33.
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
17,848
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, Texas A&M University, Department of Finance and University of Oklahoma
Downloads
17,391
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
17,376
36.
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
Downloads
17,154
37.
Valuation Using Multiples: How Do Analysts Reach Their Conclusions?
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 17 Jul 2001
Last Revised: 19 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
17,101
38.
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
16,785
39.
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
16,222
40.
Valuation of Brands and Intellectual Capital
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 29 May 2001
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
16,099
41.
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
Downloads
16,033
Financial Accounting Information and Corporate Governance
Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 32, Nos. 1-3, December 2001
Posted: 25 Oct 2001
Downloads
16,033
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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15,991
43.
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
Downloads
15,746
44.
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
15,697
45.
Cash Flow Is a Fact: Net Income Is Just an Opinion
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 25 Sep 2002
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
15,650
46.
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
Downloads
15,567
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
15,390
48.
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
Downloads
15,189
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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15,189
49.
Investor Protection and Corporate Governance
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 27 Jul 2000
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School, Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
There are 4 versions of this paper
Investor Protection and Corporate Governance
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 27 Jul 2000
Downloads
15,024
Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation
Harvard Institute of Economics Research Paper No. 1882
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 13 Dec 1999
Downloads
3,609
Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation
NBER Working Paper No. w7403
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 26 Jul 2000
Last Revised: 14 Oct 2010
Downloads
745
Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation
Journal of Finance, Vol. 57, pp. 1147-1170, 2002
Posted: 29 Nov 2003
Downloads
15,024
50.
EVA and Cash Value Added Do NOT Measure Shareholder Value Creation
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 05 Jun 2001
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
14,999
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