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作者:KAPLAN, SN
作者单位:National Bureau of Economic Research
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作者:LANG, LHP; STULZ, RM; WALKLING, RA
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
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作者:SLOVIN, MB; SUSHKA, ME; HUDSON, CD
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要:We test whether airline consolidations generate monopoly profits by examining returns to listed carriers around horizontal airline-acquisition bids and evaluating effects of industry concentration on share-price reactions. Under Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) regulation, returns to targets, bidders, and rival carriers are positive functions of changes in concentration implied by bids. Changes in concentration after deregulation have no positive effect on carrier returns. These results support J...
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作者:HAMPSON, P; PARSONS, J; BLITZER, C
作者单位:City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); The World Bank
摘要:To improve on the design of the production-sharing rule in a contract for exploration and development negotiated between a state-owned oil resources authority and a U.S. oil company, we use the Grossman and Hart (1983) principal-agent model. In the original contract, the company was granted a share of production as an incentive to maximize the net return to the authority. The optimal sharing rule we develop increases the expected return to the authority by 6% by improving the company's incenti...
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作者:POUND, J
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作者:HOLDERNESS, CG; SHEEHAN, DP
作者单位:University of Chicago; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要:Turner Broadcasting illustrates how organizational mechanisms can be adapted to prevent a majority owner from imposing costs on minority shareholders through inept management or opportunistic behavior. These mechanisms involve issuing preferred stock with unusual features, concentrating its ownership among a small group of investors, allowing the new preferred shareholders to elect several directors, and requiring supramajority approval of major management decisions by a reconstituted board of...
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作者:SINGH, AK; COWAN, AR; NAYAR, N
作者单位:University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
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作者:CONRAD, J; KAUL, G; NIMALENDRAN, M
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
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作者:LODERER, CF; SHEEHAN, DP; KADLEC, GB
作者单位:Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Chicago
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作者:HOSHI, T; KASHYAP, A; SCHARFSTEIN, D
作者单位:Federal Reserve System - USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research