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1.

Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality -- Abridged (English Language Version)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-061, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 10-01, Simon School Working Paper No. 10-07
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2016
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
Unaffiliated Authors - Independent, Harvard Business School and Landmark Worldwide LLC

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Downloads 16,053
2.

The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 802, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, pp. 1085-1156, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-66
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 07 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav and Wei Jiang
Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics

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Downloads 10,448
3.

The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 27, 2010, pp. 257-282, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 657, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 287
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann
Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Law School
Downloads 9,332
4.

Performance for Pay? The Relation Between CEO Incentive Compensation and Future Stock Price Performance

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2016
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Michael J. Cooper, Huseyin Gulen and P. Raghavendra Rau
University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and University of Cambridge
Downloads 7,932
5.

What Counts and What Gets Counted

Number of pages: 216 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2018
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Robert J. Bloomfield
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Downloads 7,040
6.

Does it Pay to Be Good...And Does it Matter? A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and James P. Walsh
Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 6,993
7.

Death and Taxes and Zombies

98 Iowa Law Review 1207 (2013)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Adam Chodorow
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Downloads 6,810
8.

Foundations of Organizational Strategy: Preface and Introduction

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 1998
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 Oct 2000 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 6,198
9.

The Impact of Training and Motivation on Performance of Employees

Business Review, Volume 7, Number 2, July - December 2012, 84-95
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Muhammad Khan
UBL Fund Managers Limited
Downloads 6,182
10.

Bank CEO Incentives and the Credit Crisis

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Charles A Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-13, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-13, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 09-27, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 256/2009
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
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Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René M. Stulz
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

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Downloads 5,755
11.

Video: The Three Foundations of A Great Life, Great Leadership, and A Great Organization

Barbados Group Working Paper No. 11-04, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Research Paper No. 11-122
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 10 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen
Unaffiliated Authors - Independent and Harvard Business School
Downloads 5,046
12.

Mandatory Fun: Consent, Gamification and the Impact of Games at Work

The Wharton School Research Paper Series
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2014
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Ethan R. Mollick and Nancy Rothbard
University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - Management Department
Downloads 4,770
13.

Paying for Long-Term Performance

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, pp. 1915-1959, 2010, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 658
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2010
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Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 4,606
14.

CEO Compensation

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 77
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2010
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Carola Frydman and Dirk Jenter
Northwestern University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance

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Downloads 4,366
15.

The Effects of Performance Measurement and Compensation on Motivation: An Empirical Study

De Economist, Vol. 153, No. 3, 2005, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 03-048/3
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Marco van Herpen, Mirjam van Praag and Kees Cools
Boston Consulting Group, University of Amsterdam - Department of Economics and Boston Consulting Group
Downloads 4,156
16.

Motivational Spillovers from Awards: Crowding Out in a Multitasking Environment

Forthcoming in Organization Science, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 13-069
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Timothy Gubler, Ian Larkin and Lamar Pierce
University of California, Riverside (UCR), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business
Downloads 4,154
17.

The Determinants of Corporate Board Size and Composition: An Empirical Analysis

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 85, No. 1, 2007, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Audra L. Boone, Laura Casares Field, Jonathan M. Karpoff and Charu G. Raheja
Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and Wake Forest University
Downloads 3,942
18.

Calculation of Compensation Incentives and Firm-Related Wealth Using Execucomp: Data, Program, and Explanation

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Jul 2013
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Jeffrey L. Coles, Naveen D. Daniel and Lalitha Naveen
University of Utah - Department of Finance, Drexel University - Department of Finance and Temple University
Downloads 3,790
19.

Earnings Management and Executive Compensation: A Case of Overdose of Option and Underdose of Salary?

EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Presented Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Mar 2002
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Ronald E. Shrieves and Pengjie Gao
University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Finance and University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business
Downloads 3,775
20.

Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 807-822, 2005, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 653125, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 505, February 2005
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 05 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 3,696
21.

The Myth that Insulating Boards Serves Long-Term Value

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 113, No. 6, pp. 1637-1694, October 2013, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 755
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Harvard Law School
Downloads 3,607
22.

Four Ways of Being that Create the Foundations of A Great Personal Life, Great Leadership and A Great Organization -- PDF File of Powerpoint Slides

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 13-078, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 13-01
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 29 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen
Unaffiliated Authors - Independent and Harvard Business School
Downloads 3,593
23.

Was the 2008 Financial Crisis Caused by a Lack of Corporate Ethics?

Global Journal of Business Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 77-84, 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Jul 2010
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Victor Lewis, Kenneth D. Kay, Chandrika Kelso and James Larson
National University, National University, National University and National University
Downloads 3,513
24.

Dynamic CEO Compensation

Journal of Finance 67(5), 1603-1647, October 2012
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Alex Edmans, Xavier Gabaix, Tomasz Sadzik and Yuliy Sannikov
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, Harvard University - Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics

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Downloads 3,145
25.

Corporate Governance, Incentives, and Tax Avoidance

Journal of Accounting and Economics 60 (August 2015): 1–17., Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 136,
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2015
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Chris Armstrong, Jennifer Blouin, Alan D. Jagolinzer and David F. Larcker
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads 2,979
26.

Enlightened Shareholder Value, Social Responsibility, and the Redefinition of Corporate Purpose Without Law

Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2010-11
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Jun 2010
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David Millon
Washington and Lee University - School of Law
Downloads 2,895
27.

El Clima y la Justicia Organizacional y su Efecto en la Satisfaccion Laboral (The Impact of Organizational Climate, Organizational Justice on Job Satisfaction)

Revista Internacional Administración & Finanzas, v. 5 (5) p. 1-19,
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Juana Patlán-Pérez, Edgar Martínez Torres and Rosalía Hernández Hernández
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Autonomous University of Hidalgo State and Colegio de Posgraduados
Downloads 2,837
28.

Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer

Journal of Economic Literature, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 450/2015
Number of pages: 165 Posted: 13 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017
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Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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Downloads 2,798
29.

Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 25, April 2014, pp. 140-154, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 683
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014
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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C. Y. Wang
Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Business School
Downloads 2,693
30.

Is U.S. CEO Compensation Inefficient Pay Without Performance?

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-05, 103 Michigan Law Review 1142 (2005)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2017
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John E. Core, Wayne R. Guay and Randall S. Thomas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads 2,599
31.

Corporate Governance and Blockchains

Review of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 08 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 07 May 2017
Accepted Paper Series
David Yermack
New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business

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Downloads 2,566
32.

Analysis of the Employee Motivation Factors: Focus on Age and Gender Specific Factors

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 12 Sep 2012
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Sofija Karaskakovska
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 2,546
33.

What Do Boards Do? Evidence from Board Committee and Director Compensation Data

EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Sep 2005
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Renee B. Adams
University of New South Wales, Department of Banking and Finance
Downloads 2,537
34.

Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field

27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 09 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2017
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John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey, Jillian Grennan and Shivaram Rajgopal
Duke University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School

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Downloads 2,521
35.

Equity Vesting and Investment

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 379/2013
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 27 May 2013 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2016
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Alex Edmans, Vivian W. Fang and Katharina Lewellen
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Accounting and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Downloads 2,392
36.

Agency Theory and Executive Compensation: The Case of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Jan 2003
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Taye Mengistae and Lixin Colin Xu
World Bank and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
Downloads 2,168
37.

Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Mar 2013
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Alan Benson
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
Downloads 2,103
38.

Motivating Innovation

Journal of Finance, vol. 66, pp. 1823-1869, 2011, AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 21 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2014
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Gustavo Manso
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Downloads 2,095
39.

Good Firms, Good Targets: The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility, Reputation, and Activist Targeting

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World: Toward Effective Global CSR Frameworks. Edited by Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Alwyn Lim. (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Brayden King and Mary-Hunter McDonnell
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and The Wharton School - The University of Pennsylvania
Downloads 2,087
40.

CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), 2013, 56(2-3), pp. 79-101., AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2014
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Todd A. Gormley, David A. Matsa and Todd T. Milbourn
Washington University in St. Louis, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Washington University in Saint Louis - Olin Business School
Downloads 1,959
41.

Outsourcing Shareholder Voting to Proxy Advisory Firms

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 58, No. 1 (February 2015), pp. 173-204, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 119, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 14-27 (2105R), IESE Business School Working Paper No. WP1096-E
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
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David F. Larcker, Allan L. McCall and Gaizka Ormazabal
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Navarra, IESE Business School
Downloads 1,917
42.

CEO Compensation, Director Compensation, and Firm Performance: Evidence of Cronyism

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Apr 2002
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Ivan E. Brick, Oded Palmon and John K. Wald
Rutgers Business School, Rutgers Business School and University of Texas at San Antonio
Downloads 1,819
43.

Do Long-Term Investors Improve Corporate Decision Making?

Finance Down Under 2015 Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance Paper, Asian Finance Association 2015 Conference Paper
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 05 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2017
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Jarrad Harford, Ambrus Kecskes and Sattar Mansi
University of Washington, York University - Schulich School of Business and Virginia Tech

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Downloads 1,790
44.

The Bug at Volkswagen: Lessons in Co-Determination, Ownership, and Board Structure

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 27, No. 4, 2015
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Feb 2016
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Charles M. Elson, Craig Ferrere and Nicholas J. Goossen
University of Delaware - John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School class of 2017 and University of Delaware
Downloads 1,762
45.

Back Door Links between Directors and Executive Compensation

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Feb 2005
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David F. Larcker, Scott A. Richardson, Andrew Seary and A. Irem Tuna
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, AQR Capital Management, LLC, Simon Fraser University (SFU) - School of Communication and London Business School
Downloads 1,735
46.

The Effect of Target Difficulty on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions

The Accounting Review, Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 1467-1492, 2016
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li and George Serafeim
London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads 1,638
47.

Does Educational Background Affect CEO Compensation and Firm Performance?

The Journal of Applied Business Research, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 15-40, 2010
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2011
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Terrance Jalbert, Kimberly Furumo and Mercedes Jalbert
University of Hawaii - Department of Business Administration, University of Hawaii at Hilo, CoBE and The Institute for Business and Finance Research
Downloads 1,626
48.

Do Compensation Consultants Enable Higher CEO Pay? A Disclosure Rule Change As a Separating Device

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2017
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Jenny Chu, Jonathan Faasse and P. Raghavendra Rau
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University of Cambridge
Downloads 1,621
49.

The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Employees' Motivation and Retention.

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Mar 2014
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Akram Al-Khaled
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 1,605
50.

How Do Quasi-Random Option Grants Affect CEO Risk-Taking?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 13-03, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Kelly Shue and Richard R. Townsend
Yale School of Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management

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