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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Incentive alignment"”.
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The Benefits of Mandatory Disclosure: Evidence from Regulation S-X Article 11
… pro formas improve analyst forecasts or mitigate incentive alignment problems. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, I provide evidence that pro formas reduce post-acquisition forecast errors and improve target selection. The improvement in forecast accuracy (target selection) is …
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Investigating the Relationship between Governance Mechanisms and the Disclosure of IT Control Weaknesses
… caused by information asymmetry and lack of alignment between the overall organization represented by its board of directors as a principal and its information systems (IS) organization represented by the top IS team as an agent. Drawing on corporate governance literature, this dissertation …
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Ownership Structure and Characteristics of Earnings
… These findings suggest that the presumable incentive alignment effect that prompts firms to provide stock ownership to a larger set of executives come at a cost to investors, namely that of diminishing reliability of reported earnings. Additional tests show that the proprietary costs of …
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An Operational Value Stream Analysis for Developmental Excellence
… impacts of engineering requirements, financial alignment among stakeholders, and improved efficiencies in predictive modeling techniques for two separate air vehicle programs: A and B. A Monte Carlo analysis using SEER-H estimation software quantifies the financial and schedule impacts of …
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Services in Manufacturing Industries: Contributions to Quality and Competition
… industry (aircraft engines), and show that the incentive alignment induced by performance-based contracts positively influences product reliability by different mechanisms. In the second essay, we formulate and estimate a structural model to analyze the impact of service competition and product …
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Governance Choices During Speculative Exuberance
… stronger boards and use greater amounts of incentive-alignment mechanisms during periods of exuberance. These effects are enhanced for firms with experienced managers, and although the structural strength of the board appears to reduce the severity of agency problems, speculative exuberance …
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Essays in Corporate Governance: Issues and Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs
… the entrenchment effect thus overwhelming the incentive alignment effects that theory posits. I document a positive relation between outside blockholder ownership and firm performance. And finally, I show that the level of ownership concentration increases (decreases) in anticipation of …
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Public Interest Computing: a Pluralistic Design Language Foundation for Societal-Machine Alignment
… necessitates a critical examination of their alignment with societal and environmental values. The reciprocal relationship between these norms and emerging AI technologies calls for a structural conceptualization of algorithmic systems that extends the scale of human-centered considerations. …
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Causes and consequences of external blockholdings
… envisage blockholder monitoring as a long-term incentive-alignment mechanism between managers and shareholders.
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Restaurant Crowdfunding Activities and African American Restaurateurs' Financing Experiences: From Macroeconomic Policies to Ethnic Enclaves
… 1 examines how the two goals of agency theory—incentive alignment and risk-aversion mitigation—affect entrepreneurs’ financing behaviors. The state-year level of entrepreneurial activities is examined through quadratic regression analyses. Results show that state-level free market policies and …
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Three Essays on Incentive Problems of Parties with Potential Conflict of Interest
I study the impact of different incentives on strategic decisions of parties that have the option of cooperating with each other. Incentive problems are well studied in various contexts, such as supply chain management and healthcare operations management. However, in the fast-changing business …