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A Framework for Assessing Corporate Governance Reform 0 0 0 257 1 1 3 837
Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance 0 0 1 41 3 4 8 83
Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance 0 1 2 26 0 1 3 34
Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution: A Survey of the Economic Literature 0 2 14 904 2 13 64 2,760
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 1 36 2 4 7 195
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 1 118 0 0 3 458
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 51 0 1 1 185
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 36 1 1 1 188
Buyouts: A Primer 0 0 4 4 1 2 8 9
Buyouts: A Primer 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 15
CEO Investment Cycles 0 0 0 29 0 0 2 65
CEO Investment Cycles 0 0 0 13 0 1 5 112
Climate Change, Operating Flexibility and Corporate Investment Decisions 0 0 2 46 0 0 11 68
Climate Change, Operating Flexibility, and Corporate Investment Decisions 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 21
Corporate Demand for Liquidity 0 0 2 422 10 20 43 1,289
Corporate Financial and Investment Policies When Future Financing Is Not Frictionless 0 0 0 76 2 6 15 304
Corporate Financial and Investment Policies when Future Financing is not Frictionless 0 0 0 160 2 4 21 633
Corporate Governance and Hostile Takeover 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 1,701
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 4 187 4 15 39 748
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 1 41 7 13 36 187
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 37
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 0 1 18 0 0 3 74
Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt? 0 0 0 32 0 0 2 165
Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt? 0 0 0 24 0 0 3 113
Discount Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 1 9 2 3 5 24
Discount Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 2 8 0 1 10 29
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms' Financial Constraints? 0 0 0 22 2 2 3 82
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms' Financial Constraints? 0 0 0 82 0 0 2 179
Do Firms Go Public to Raise Capital? 1 1 6 250 1 2 12 1,049
Does Uncertainty about Management Affect Firms' Costs of Borrowing? 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 39
Does Uncertainty about Management Affect Firms’ Costs of Borrowing? 0 1 1 14 0 1 2 50
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 0 1 4 499 0 2 12 1,532
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 0 1 1 576 1 3 20 1,938
Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do They Receive Better Terms? 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 89
Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do they Receive Better Terms? 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 90
Financing-Motivated Acquisitions 0 0 1 19 1 1 3 76
Financing-Motivated Acquisitions 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 39
Horses and Rabbits? Optimal Dynamic Capital Structure from Shareholder and Manager Perspectives 0 0 0 395 0 0 0 1,604
Hospital Governance, Performance Objectives, and Organizational Form 0 1 1 1,104 0 1 4 4,617
How Financial Management Affects Institutional Investors’ Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Insurers 0 0 0 25 0 1 2 51
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 0 48 0 0 2 82
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 1 33 0 0 4 69
Incentives of Divisional Managers: Evidence from Texax Banks 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 228
Incentives of Private Equity General Partners from Future Fundraising 2 2 3 36 3 4 6 128
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 0 14 0 0 2 45
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 0 38 0 5 9 72
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 0 0 127 0 0 6 364
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 0 0 150 0 0 7 460
Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 26 0 0 1 86
Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 19 0 0 1 94
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis 0 2 7 256 0 3 28 674
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis 0 0 1 195 0 0 4 514
Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry 0 0 1 9 1 1 3 54
Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry 0 1 1 15 0 2 3 102
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 3 110 0 7 22 392
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 0 86 1 6 17 415
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 0 55 3 6 20 212
Management Risk and the Cost of Borrowing 0 0 0 7 0 0 3 74
Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities 0 0 0 29 0 0 2 187
Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 81
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 1 3 0 0 1 30
Measuring Investment Distortions when Risk-Averse Managers Decide Whether to Undertake Risky Projects 0 0 0 210 0 0 2 745
Motivations for Public Equity Offers: An International Perspective 0 0 0 142 0 1 5 464
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 0 0 210 0 3 4 837
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 0 0 42 0 0 0 166
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 128
Price Risk, Production Flexibility, and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Electricity Generating Firms 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 50
Private Benefits and Cross-Listings in the United States 0 0 0 173 0 2 5 645
Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 1 19 0 2 12 73
Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 21
Protection of Minority Shareholder Interests, Cross-listings in the United States, and Subsequent Equity Offerings 0 0 0 798 0 0 2 5,144
Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors' Monitoring 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3
Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors’ Monitoring 0 1 3 14 0 1 3 26
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 0 46 1 2 11 119
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 2 87 0 0 7 158
Specialized Investments and Firms' Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 0 0 8 0 0 6 19
Specialized Investments and Firms’ Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 0 0 14 0 0 10 45
Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 71
Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate 0 0 0 16 0 0 2 103
THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF FRANCHISE TERMINATION LAWS 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 920
The Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash: Replication, Extension, and Robustness 0 0 2 12 0 0 10 24
The Corporate Finance of Multinational Firms 0 0 1 2 1 3 9 22
The Corporate Finance of Multinational Firms 0 1 4 25 0 4 33 104
The Economics of Has-Beens 1 1 2 87 1 2 5 525
The Economics of PIPEs 0 0 1 9 0 1 3 60
The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 1 7 0 0 1 41
The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 75
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 3 240 9 13 60 874
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 1 907 6 14 62 3,708
The Role of Financial Conditions in Portfolio Choices: The Case of Insurers 0 0 1 17 0 0 2 53
The State of Corporate Governance Research 1 2 4 577 1 4 9 1,551
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 1 169 0 1 6 310
The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence From Disvestitures 0 0 1 221 0 1 12 745
Transparency and Corporate Governance 0 2 12 410 5 16 71 1,575
Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence 0 0 1 36 0 1 3 115
Understanding Corporate Governance through Learning Models of Managerial Competence 0 0 1 8 0 0 1 46
What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues? 0 0 0 116 0 1 2 495
What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues? 0 0 0 56 0 0 3 228
What Do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings 0 0 0 31 0 0 2 101
What do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings 0 0 6 41 2 5 38 201
Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 0 136 0 0 0 308
Why are Buyouts Leveraged? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Firms 0 0 1 502 0 0 2 1,154
Why are Buyouts Levered: The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 1 741 0 1 3 2,102
Why are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 1 1 1 358 1 2 3 909
World Market for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 89 0 1 1 219
World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 43 0 1 2 107
World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 95 0 1 2 221
World Markets for Raising New Capital 0 1 1 275 0 1 6 926
Total Working Papers 6 22 120 13,977 78 226 941 52,704


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An Agency Perspective on Franchising 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 855
Boards of directors as an endogenously determined institution: a survey of the economic literature 0 4 48 1,592 13 44 227 5,369
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 3 3 7 95 8 10 23 424
CEO Investment Cycles 0 1 2 37 2 5 14 166
CEO turnover and the firm's investment decisions 0 0 3 213 1 3 14 490
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 1 2 14 130 6 12 50 542
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 1 2 8 0 2 12 40
Corporate financial and investment policies when future financing is not frictionless 1 2 5 129 6 11 45 631
Corporate governance and hostile takeovers 0 0 1 93 0 2 9 218
Determinants of Cross‐Border Mergers and Acquisitions 4 5 19 36 6 11 56 105
Did securitization affect the cost of corporate debt? 0 1 8 57 3 10 28 315
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms’ Financial Constraints? 1 1 3 65 2 3 10 325
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 0 4 17 782 6 22 86 2,384
Financial flexibility and the choice between dividends and stock repurchases 4 11 51 759 8 27 118 1,926
Governance, performance objectives and organizational form: evidence from hospitals 0 0 1 88 7 15 31 366
Horses and Rabbits? Trade-Off Theory and Optimal Capital Structure 0 0 2 79 0 1 6 276
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 0 6 0 0 4 59
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 1 13 1 1 4 113
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 0 2 131 5 7 23 508
Learning About CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 1 27 1 1 4 186
Limited partner performance and the maturing of the private equity industry 0 3 11 86 4 9 46 375
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 6 130 5 15 54 532
Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill at Making Private Equity Investments 0 1 4 17 0 1 7 84
Measuring Investment Distortions when Risk-Averse Managers Decide Whether to Undertake Risky Projects 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 541
Measuring investment distortions arising from stockholder-bondholder conflicts 1 1 3 310 3 6 14 853
Motivations for public equity offers: An international perspective 2 4 17 343 4 17 60 976
Open-end mutual funds and capital-gains taxes 0 0 0 28 0 0 1 120
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 6 0 1 2 346
Outside directors and CEO turnover 4 17 66 2,277 12 37 148 5,662
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 2 3 10 48 3 5 25 271
Private benefits and cross-listings in the United States 0 0 2 82 2 6 20 334
Protection of minority shareholder interests, cross-listings in the United States, and subsequent equity offerings 0 0 1 229 0 2 18 966
Reversions of Excess Pension Assets after Takeovers 0 0 0 28 1 1 3 300
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 4 5 2 5 18 21
Syndicated loan spreads and the composition of the syndicate 1 1 5 159 3 9 31 629
The Determinants of Board Composition 1 4 26 667 4 14 77 1,959
The Economic Effects of Franchise Termination Laws 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 416
The Economics of Has-beens 0 1 3 97 0 2 11 594
The Effects of Board Composition and Direct Incentives on Firm Performance 0 0 0 0 6 15 90 3,829
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 2 2 9 489 5 12 68 1,868
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 2 85 2 3 12 420
The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence from Divestitures 1 4 17 688 4 8 56 2,147
The economics of PIPEs 0 0 2 9 0 0 9 49
The liquidity cost of private equity investments: Evidence from secondary market transactions 1 1 2 18 3 6 15 109
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers 0 0 3 10 2 3 15 37
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 1 52 4 11 35 843
Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 3 286 1 2 8 849
World markets for raising new capital 0 3 7 169 0 5 24 572
Total Journal Articles 29 80 391 10,661 147 384 1,648 41,000


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Corporate Governance 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 181
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Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 16
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 7
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Total Chapters 0 0 0 0 2 5 20 280


Statistics updated 2023-03-10