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A Framework for Assessing Corporate Governance Reform 0 0 0 257 1 2 5 845
All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization 0 0 0 12 2 8 17 45
All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization 0 0 0 4 2 9 11 23
Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance 0 0 0 26 2 9 11 47
Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance 0 0 0 44 2 11 13 108
Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution: A Survey of the Economic Literature 0 0 3 916 1 19 51 2,872
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 40 2 6 12 225
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 1 123 1 5 12 487
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 52 3 7 9 199
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 36 2 8 10 202
Borrow cheap, buy high? The determinants of leverage and pricing in buyouts 0 0 1 13 1 8 14 106
Borrow cheap, buy high? The determinants of leverage and pricing in buyouts 0 0 0 1 2 8 12 15
Buyouts: A Primer 1 1 2 27 3 4 10 50
Buyouts: A Primer 0 0 0 5 0 5 6 33
CEO Investment Cycles 0 0 0 15 1 8 14 138
CEO Investment Cycles 0 0 0 32 0 1 3 73
Climate Change, Demand Uncertainty, and Firms' Investments: Evidence from Planned Power Plants 0 0 0 12 1 11 20 37
Climate Change, Operating Flexibility and Corporate Investment Decisions 0 0 1 48 3 8 20 102
Climate Change, Operating Flexibility, and Corporate Investment Decisions 0 0 0 32 1 6 7 36
Corporate Demand for Liquidity 1 2 3 427 2 11 24 1,345
Corporate Financial and Investment Policies When Future Financing Is Not Frictionless 1 1 1 77 2 8 14 338
Corporate Financial and Investment Policies when Future Financing is not Frictionless 0 1 1 162 1 8 11 680
Corporate Governance and Hostile Takeover 0 0 0 1 0 6 7 1,713
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 1 1 2 194 5 20 40 830
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 1 44 1 4 15 234
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 1 1 1 20 1 7 9 86
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 0 0 11 0 5 6 46
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 15 1 2 10 39
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 3 41 1 7 16 57
Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt? 0 0 0 33 1 4 9 180
Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt? 0 0 0 24 2 4 6 121
Discount Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 13 0 2 5 42
Discount Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 1 1 1 13 4 10 19 56
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms' Financial Constraints? 0 0 0 82 0 7 10 193
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms' Financial Constraints? 0 0 0 24 1 5 5 92
Do Firms Go Public to Raise Capital? 0 0 0 254 0 0 4 1,072
Does Uncertainty about Management Affect Firms' Costs of Borrowing? 0 0 0 5 1 3 4 47
Does Uncertainty about Management Affect Firms’ Costs of Borrowing? 0 0 0 14 2 7 7 61
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 1 2 3 587 4 12 27 2,011
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 0 1 5 511 4 12 33 1,595
Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do They Receive Better Terms? 0 0 0 13 1 6 8 99
Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do they Receive Better Terms? 0 0 0 8 2 7 8 99
Financing-Motivated Acquisitions 0 0 0 8 0 1 3 46
Financing-Motivated Acquisitions 0 0 0 19 1 8 11 90
Horses and Rabbits? Optimal Dynamic Capital Structure from Shareholder and Manager Perspectives 0 0 0 395 0 5 6 1,612
Hospital Governance, Performance Objectives, and Organizational Form 1 1 1 1,105 2 10 15 4,635
How Financial Management Affects Institutional Investors’ Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Insurers 0 0 0 25 0 4 4 56
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 0 33 3 14 14 88
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 0 49 4 10 15 100
Incentives of Divisional Managers: Evidence from Texax Banks 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 234
Incentives of Private Equity General Partners from Future Fundraising 0 1 1 40 0 6 11 149
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 0 38 3 9 16 89
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 0 14 0 1 4 49
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 0 0 130 1 5 7 381
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 0 2 153 1 7 10 476
Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 19 0 2 9 106
Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 27 0 4 5 93
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis 0 1 3 205 2 8 11 536
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis 0 0 4 267 0 7 18 718
Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry 0 0 0 11 0 3 5 68
Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry 0 0 2 18 1 3 9 121
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 1 3 93 0 10 16 459
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 0 56 1 6 8 245
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 0 112 1 10 13 429
Management Risk and the Cost of Borrowing 0 0 0 7 0 6 7 87
Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities 0 0 0 29 0 4 5 198
Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities 0 0 0 20 0 1 3 86
Measuring Institutional Investors' Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity 0 0 0 9 1 3 5 41
Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity 0 0 0 3 0 6 10 41
Measuring Investment Distortions when Risk-Averse Managers Decide Whether to Undertake Risky Projects 0 0 0 210 0 2 4 754
Motivations for Public Equity Offers: An International Perspective 0 0 1 143 1 6 14 485
Optimal Executive Compensation vs. Managerial Power: A Review of Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's "Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation" 1 1 2 213 2 16 22 868
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 0 0 43 1 8 11 184
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 0 0 13 2 4 7 136
Price Risk, Production Flexibility, and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Electricity Generating Firms 0 0 0 47 1 4 8 62
Price Risk, Production Flexibility, and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Electricity Generating Firms 0 0 0 25 0 4 6 41
Private Benefits and Cross-Listings in the United States 0 0 0 174 0 7 8 665
Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions 0 2 3 22 3 15 31 113
Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 27
Protection of Minority Shareholder Interests, Cross-listings in the United States, and Subsequent Equity Offerings 0 0 0 800 0 7 12 5,166
Relationship-Specific Investments and Firms' Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 1 3 3 14 2 9 16 34
Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors' Monitoring 0 0 0 2 2 3 6 14
Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors’ Monitoring 0 0 0 14 0 5 10 39
Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds 0 0 1 59 1 3 11 138
Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds 0 0 0 2 2 7 11 17
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 0 89 0 9 16 183
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 2 51 2 6 14 149
Selling to Yourself: Continuation Funds in Private Equity 1 4 5 5 2 8 11 11
Specialized Investments and Firms' Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 0 0 8 1 4 7 34
Specialized Investments and Firms’ Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 0 0 14 1 6 13 63
Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate 0 0 1 18 0 6 9 85
Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate 0 0 0 17 0 4 7 114
THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF FRANCHISE TERMINATION LAWS 0 0 0 2 1 4 5 926
The Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash: Replication, Extension, and Robustness 1 3 7 30 9 19 29 90
The Corporate Finance of Multinational Firms 0 0 1 31 1 4 17 158
The Corporate Finance of Multinational Firms 0 1 5 17 2 8 22 73
The Economics of Has-Beens 0 1 1 89 0 2 6 535
The Economics of PIPEs 1 1 1 10 1 4 11 74
The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 24 0 6 14 91
The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 8 0 1 9 52
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 1 4 922 1 12 44 3,848
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 1 244 2 7 18 928
The Role of Financial Conditions in Portfolio Choices: The Case of Insurers 0 0 0 17 0 3 3 58
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 0 582 5 15 21 1,596
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 1 1 173 0 5 11 326
The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence From Disvestitures 0 1 3 227 2 12 27 790
Transparency and Corporate Governance 0 0 1 415 1 12 20 1,632
Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence 0 0 0 37 1 8 12 135
Understanding Corporate Governance through Learning Models of Managerial Competence 0 0 0 9 2 5 8 56
What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues? 0 1 1 118 1 5 7 504
What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues? 0 0 0 57 0 3 4 243
What Do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings 0 0 0 33 1 5 9 115
What do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings 0 0 0 42 1 4 17 227
Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 0 140 5 11 12 344
Why are Buyouts Leveraged? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Firms 0 0 0 505 0 2 7 1,166
Why are Buyouts Levered: The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 1 1 1 745 4 9 13 2,133
Why are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 0 358 0 5 8 924
World Market for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 89 2 8 10 234
World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 43 2 5 7 114
World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 95 0 7 8 231
World Markets for Raising New Capital 0 0 0 278 3 7 12 945
Total Working Papers 14 36 90 14,477 158 800 1,447 55,842


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An Agency Perspective on Franchising 0 0 0 0 4 12 24 893
Boards of directors as an endogenously determined institution: a survey of the economic literature 5 7 23 1,649 21 43 110 5,681
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 6 8 26 154 13 36 109 664
CEO Investment Cycles 0 1 1 43 2 10 17 215
CEO turnover and the firm's investment decisions 0 1 4 226 0 7 18 528
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 1 2 8 159 3 17 51 693
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 1 2 14 0 4 10 65
Corporate financial and investment policies when future financing is not frictionless 1 2 9 154 5 24 72 795
Corporate governance and hostile takeovers 0 0 0 94 2 7 8 237
Determinants of Cross‐Border Mergers and Acquisitions 6 10 47 215 15 45 142 537
Did securitization affect the cost of corporate debt? 0 0 1 66 1 4 12 355
Discount‐Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 1 2 3 22 3 15 38 106
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms’ Financial Constraints? 0 0 3 73 2 9 18 375
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 4 8 25 876 8 26 88 2,697
Financial flexibility and the choice between dividends and stock repurchases 2 2 24 856 7 25 80 2,166
Governance, performance objectives and organizational form: evidence from hospitals 0 1 3 95 2 8 14 414
Horses and Rabbits? Trade-Off Theory and Optimal Capital Structure 0 0 1 82 1 4 6 289
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 1 9 1 6 13 75
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 1 1 1 16 4 10 19 138
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 1 7 164 5 35 67 723
Learning About CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 29 1 9 14 210
Limited partner performance and the maturing of the private equity industry 0 3 9 128 2 11 44 517
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 2 139 0 6 15 597
Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill at Making Private Equity Investments 1 2 4 28 2 9 23 124
Measuring Investment Distortions when Risk-Averse Managers Decide Whether to Undertake Risky Projects 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 553
Measuring investment distortions arising from stockholder-bondholder conflicts 1 1 2 318 2 8 14 886
Motivations for public equity offers: An international perspective 1 4 12 400 2 9 43 1,133
Open-end mutual funds and capital-gains taxes 0 0 0 30 0 4 7 130
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 9 10 359
Outside directors and CEO turnover 3 6 31 2,394 7 23 88 5,949
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 0 4 61 6 15 37 343
Private benefits and cross-listings in the United States 0 0 0 83 0 5 9 357
Protection of minority shareholder interests, cross-listings in the United States, and subsequent equity offerings 0 1 4 247 3 13 35 1,051
Reversions of Excess Pension Assets after Takeovers 0 0 0 29 0 2 2 307
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 2 16 2 15 30 103
Syndicated loan spreads and the composition of the syndicate 0 0 2 168 2 6 12 673
The Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash: Replication, Extension, and Robustness 0 3 7 7 2 22 29 29
The Determinants of Board Composition 1 2 10 705 2 19 48 2,116
The Economic Effects of Franchise Termination Laws 0 0 0 3 0 9 15 434
The Economics of Has-beens 0 0 1 99 1 2 5 608
The Effects of Board Composition and Direct Incentives on Firm Performance 0 0 0 0 10 28 101 4,186
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 4 7 13 519 15 53 110 2,083
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 3 95 3 12 27 485
The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence from Divestitures 0 2 10 741 4 17 42 2,311
The economics of PIPEs 0 0 0 16 3 18 27 94
The liquidity cost of private equity investments: Evidence from secondary market transactions 3 4 10 35 5 18 39 176
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers 1 1 2 15 2 8 19 69
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 53 1 3 8 874
Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 3 4 14 333 6 15 44 976
World markets for raising new capital 0 0 0 178 1 3 8 604
Total Journal Articles 45 87 332 11,843 184 720 1,828 45,983


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Corporate Governance 0 0 0 0 3 16 23 213
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 16 23 213


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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions 1 6 14 21 7 25 57 92
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 0 0 2 8 17 41
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 0 0 4 33 49 326
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 0 0 15 51 56 64
Total Chapters 1 6 14 21 28 117 179 523


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