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A Framework for Assessing Corporate Governance Reform 0 0 0 257 0 0 1 840
All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization 0 0 1 12 1 3 8 30
All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization 0 0 1 4 0 2 5 12
Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance 0 0 0 44 0 1 5 96
Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance 0 0 0 26 0 1 1 36
Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution: A Survey of the Economic Literature 0 3 5 915 2 11 30 2,828
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 52 0 0 3 190
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 122 0 1 4 475
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 36 0 0 1 192
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 1 40 0 0 6 213
Borrow cheap, buy high? The determinants of leverage and pricing in buyouts 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 92
Borrow cheap, buy high? The determinants of leverage and pricing in buyouts 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3
Buyouts: A Primer 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 27
Buyouts: A Primer 0 8 9 25 1 15 18 42
CEO Investment Cycles 0 0 0 15 0 1 3 124
CEO Investment Cycles 0 0 1 32 0 0 1 70
Climate Change, Demand Uncertainty, and Firms' Investments: Evidence from Planned Power Plants 0 1 6 12 0 5 15 20
Climate Change, Operating Flexibility and Corporate Investment Decisions 0 0 0 47 1 3 4 85
Climate Change, Operating Flexibility, and Corporate Investment Decisions 0 0 0 32 0 0 1 29
Corporate Demand for Liquidity 1 1 1 425 2 3 8 1,324
Corporate Financial and Investment Policies When Future Financing Is Not Frictionless 0 0 0 76 0 0 4 324
Corporate Financial and Investment Policies when Future Financing is not Frictionless 0 0 0 161 0 0 9 669
Corporate Governance and Hostile Takeover 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1,706
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 2 43 1 2 13 221
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 2 3 193 1 4 18 793
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 78
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 40
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 2 15 0 3 10 32
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 2 38 2 2 9 43
Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt? 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 115
Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt? 0 0 0 33 1 2 3 173
Discount Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 1 2 12 0 2 5 38
Discount Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 1 13 0 0 4 37
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms' Financial Constraints? 0 0 0 82 0 0 2 183
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms' Financial Constraints? 0 0 2 24 0 0 4 87
Do Firms Go Public to Raise Capital? 0 1 1 254 1 2 4 1,069
Does Uncertainty about Management Affect Firms' Costs of Borrowing? 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 43
Does Uncertainty about Management Affect Firms’ Costs of Borrowing? 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 54
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 0 3 5 507 1 8 23 1,564
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 0 0 5 584 1 6 23 1,987
Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do They Receive Better Terms? 0 0 0 13 0 1 2 91
Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do they Receive Better Terms? 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 91
Financing-Motivated Acquisitions 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 79
Financing-Motivated Acquisitions 0 0 0 8 0 1 3 43
Horses and Rabbits? Optimal Dynamic Capital Structure from Shareholder and Manager Perspectives 0 0 0 395 0 0 1 1,606
Hospital Governance, Performance Objectives, and Organizational Form 0 0 0 1,104 0 0 2 4,620
How Financial Management Affects Institutional Investors’ Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Insurers 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 52
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 0 33 0 1 1 74
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 85
Incentives of Divisional Managers: Evidence from Texax Banks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 230
Incentives of Private Equity General Partners from Future Fundraising 0 0 1 39 0 2 4 138
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 45
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 0 38 0 1 1 74
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 0 1 130 0 1 3 374
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 0 0 151 0 0 1 466
Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 1 27 0 0 1 88
Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 19 0 0 2 97
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis 0 0 2 202 0 0 2 525
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis 0 1 5 263 0 2 14 701
Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 63
Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry 0 0 0 16 0 0 9 112
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 1 112 0 1 11 417
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 0 56 0 0 4 237
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 1 5 91 0 1 10 444
Management Risk and the Cost of Borrowing 0 0 0 7 0 1 2 80
Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities 0 0 0 29 1 1 4 194
Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 83
Measuring Institutional Investors' Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 36
Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 31
Measuring Investment Distortions when Risk-Averse Managers Decide Whether to Undertake Risky Projects 0 0 0 210 0 2 4 750
Motivations for Public Equity Offers: An International Perspective 0 0 0 142 0 1 7 472
Optimal Executive Compensation vs. Managerial Power: A Review of Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's "Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation" 0 1 1 211 0 1 5 846
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 0 0 43 0 0 3 173
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 129
Price Risk, Production Flexibility, and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Electricity Generating Firms 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 35
Price Risk, Production Flexibility, and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Electricity Generating Firms 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 54
Private Benefits and Cross-Listings in the United States 0 1 1 174 0 2 4 657
Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 19 0 1 3 82
Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 23
Protection of Minority Shareholder Interests, Cross-listings in the United States, and Subsequent Equity Offerings 0 0 0 800 1 1 6 5,155
Relationship-Specific Investments and Firms' Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 0 0 11 0 2 6 18
Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors' Monitoring 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 9
Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors’ Monitoring 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 29
Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds 0 1 2 2 0 4 8 8
Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds 0 0 19 58 1 5 50 128
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 0 89 2 2 5 169
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 1 49 1 1 3 136
Specialized Investments and Firms' Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 0 0 8 0 1 3 28
Specialized Investments and Firms’ Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 0 0 14 0 1 4 51
Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate 0 0 0 17 0 1 3 77
Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate 0 0 0 17 1 1 3 108
THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF FRANCHISE TERMINATION LAWS 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 922
The Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash: Replication, Extension, and Robustness 0 2 8 24 0 4 21 63
The Corporate Finance of Multinational Firms 2 2 2 14 5 10 17 57
The Corporate Finance of Multinational Firms 1 1 1 31 3 6 16 146
The Economics of Has-Beens 0 0 0 88 0 0 1 529
The Economics of PIPEs 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 63
The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 24 0 1 1 78
The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 1 8 0 0 1 43
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 2 7 919 3 7 41 3,809
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 2 243 0 1 11 911
The Role of Financial Conditions in Portfolio Choices: The Case of Insurers 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 55
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 0 582 1 3 9 1,577
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 1 172 0 1 2 315
The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence From Disvestitures 0 0 0 224 2 6 11 766
Transparency and Corporate Governance 0 0 3 414 0 1 14 1,613
Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence 0 0 0 37 0 1 2 123
Understanding Corporate Governance through Learning Models of Managerial Competence 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 48
What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues? 0 0 1 117 0 0 1 497
What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues? 0 0 0 57 0 1 6 239
What Do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings 0 0 1 33 0 0 3 106
What do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings 0 0 1 42 1 3 5 212
Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 2 140 0 0 12 332
Why are Buyouts Leveraged? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Firms 0 0 2 505 0 1 4 1,159
Why are Buyouts Levered: The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 1 744 0 0 11 2,120
Why are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 0 358 0 0 4 916
World Market for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 89 0 1 2 224
World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 95 0 1 2 223
World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 43 0 0 0 107
World Markets for Raising New Capital 0 0 1 278 0 0 2 933
Total Working Papers 4 32 124 14,398 39 168 663 54,483


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An Agency Perspective on Franchising 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 869
Boards of directors as an endogenously determined institution: a survey of the economic literature 1 3 20 1,628 5 14 79 5,581
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 3 4 13 131 5 12 57 564
CEO Investment Cycles 0 0 2 42 2 3 12 200
CEO turnover and the firm's investment decisions 0 2 6 223 1 4 11 512
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 12 151 3 10 49 648
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 3 3 13 0 3 6 56
Corporate financial and investment policies when future financing is not frictionless 1 4 11 148 4 15 49 735
Corporate governance and hostile takeovers 0 0 1 94 0 0 4 229
Determinants of Cross‐Border Mergers and Acquisitions 6 10 50 175 12 28 119 411
Did securitization affect the cost of corporate debt? 0 0 1 65 1 1 10 344
Discount‐Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 2 4 19 1 5 20 71
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms’ Financial Constraints? 2 2 3 72 3 5 12 361
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 0 4 31 852 0 19 92 2,616
Financial flexibility and the choice between dividends and stock repurchases 6 10 30 839 11 18 71 2,100
Governance, performance objectives and organizational form: evidence from hospitals 0 1 2 93 1 2 7 402
Horses and Rabbits? Trade-Off Theory and Optimal Capital Structure 0 0 1 81 0 0 2 283
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 1 1 2 9 1 1 2 63
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 0 15 0 1 2 119
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 2 11 158 4 7 49 661
Learning About CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 29 0 2 4 196
Limited partner performance and the maturing of the private equity industry 2 3 8 121 4 7 37 478
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 2 137 0 1 13 583
Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill at Making Private Equity Investments 1 2 4 25 5 8 14 108
Measuring Investment Distortions when Risk-Averse Managers Decide Whether to Undertake Risky Projects 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 547
Measuring investment distortions arising from stockholder-bondholder conflicts 0 1 2 316 0 2 9 873
Motivations for public equity offers: An international perspective 1 1 20 389 2 7 51 1,094
Open-end mutual funds and capital-gains taxes 0 0 2 30 0 1 4 124
Optimal Executive Compensation versus Managerial Power: A Review of Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 349
Outside directors and CEO turnover 1 8 59 2,367 4 13 108 5,870
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 0 2 57 2 5 22 310
Private benefits and cross-listings in the United States 0 0 1 83 0 0 1 348
Protection of minority shareholder interests, cross-listings in the United States, and subsequent equity offerings 0 0 5 243 3 10 28 1,021
Reversions of Excess Pension Assets after Takeovers 0 0 1 29 0 1 3 305
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 1 2 8 15 1 4 24 76
Syndicated loan spreads and the composition of the syndicate 0 1 1 166 0 4 11 661
The Determinants of Board Composition 1 2 11 697 4 8 44 2,075
The Economic Effects of Franchise Termination Laws 0 0 0 3 2 2 3 421
The Economics of Has-beens 0 0 1 98 0 1 6 603
The Effects of Board Composition and Direct Incentives on Firm Performance 0 0 0 0 5 21 136 4,097
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 1 1 10 507 5 12 49 1,980
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 2 6 93 2 10 32 465
The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence from Divestitures 2 5 16 734 6 11 49 2,277
The economics of PIPEs 0 1 3 16 0 1 7 67
The liquidity cost of private equity investments: Evidence from secondary market transactions 1 1 3 26 1 2 15 138
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers 0 0 2 13 0 3 9 52
What do boards really do? Evidence from minutes of board meetings☆☆Miriam Schwartz-Ziv is from Harvard University and Northeastern University, e-mail: miriam.schwartz@mail.huji.ac.il. Michael S. Weisbach is from Ohio State University, NBER, and SIFR, e-mail: weisbach@fisher.osu.edu. Miriam Schwartz-Ziv is very grateful to Eugene Kandel and Michael Weisbach, the co-advisors of her Hebrew University doctoral dissertation, upon which this paper is based. We thank the executive and non-executive employees of the Government Companies Authority of Israel who allowed us both formally and practically to conduct this research; the companies studied that kindly provided us with private and sensitive data; and seminar participants at Babson University, Brown University, Northeastern University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, the European Financial Management Association 2011 conference, the Western Economic Association 2012 conference, and the Financial Management Association 2012 conference, as well as the following people who shared their thoughts and advice at different stages of the preparation of this paper: Renée Adams, Amir Barnea, Steven Davidoff, Ada Demb, Dave Denis, Alon Eizenberg, Isil Erel, Rudi Fahlenbrach, Julian Franks, Ann Gillette, Ilan Guttman, Assaf Hamdani, Randal Heron, E. Han Kim, Stephanie Kramer, Saul Lach, Alexander Ljungqvist, Udi Nisan, Nadya Malenko, Avri Ravid, Artur Raviv, Karen Selody, Daniel Schwartz, Schraga Schwartz, Eytan Sheshinski, Léa Stern, Yuhai Xuan, Jun Yang, Scott Yonker, Tammar Zilber, and Clifford Smith, the referee, Miriam Schwartz-Ziv also thanks the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology and Hebrew University's School of Business Administration for financial support 0 0 0 52 0 1 7 866
Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 3 7 23 325 8 18 53 945
World markets for raising new capital 0 0 1 178 0 0 5 596
Total Journal Articles 34 85 394 11,564 108 306 1,407 44,350


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Corporate Governance 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 191
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 191


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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions 1 2 7 8 4 9 36 40
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 24
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 0 0 1 7 15 282
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 10
Total Chapters 1 2 7 8 5 18 56 356


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