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A Framework for Assessing Corporate Governance Reform 0 0 0 257 0 0 10 850
All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization 0 0 0 12 0 2 21 52
All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization 0 0 0 4 0 2 17 29
Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance 0 0 1 27 0 2 17 53
Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance 0 0 0 44 0 1 15 111
Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution: A Survey of the Economic Literature 0 0 2 917 2 12 66 2,902
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 1 2 42 2 5 20 235
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 36 0 1 13 205
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 0 52 0 0 14 204
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 0 0 1 123 0 0 11 489
Borrow cheap, buy high? The determinants of leverage and pricing in buyouts 0 0 1 13 0 0 14 107
Borrow cheap, buy high? The determinants of leverage and pricing in buyouts 0 1 1 2 0 1 17 20
Buyouts: A Primer 0 0 0 5 0 1 11 38
Buyouts: A Primer 0 0 1 27 0 2 8 52
CEO Investment Cycles 0 0 0 15 0 13 29 154
CEO Investment Cycles 0 0 0 32 0 1 6 77
Climate Change, Demand Uncertainty, and Firms' Investments: Evidence from Planned Power Plants 2 2 2 14 9 10 27 48
Climate Change, Operating Flexibility and Corporate Investment Decisions 0 0 2 49 0 1 22 109
Climate Change, Operating Flexibility, and Corporate Investment Decisions 0 0 0 32 0 0 10 39
Corporate Demand for Liquidity 0 0 3 428 1 1 24 1,349
Corporate Financial and Investment Policies When Future Financing Is Not Frictionless 0 1 2 78 0 4 18 344
Corporate Financial and Investment Policies when Future Financing is not Frictionless 0 0 1 162 0 1 16 685
Corporate Governance and Hostile Takeover 0 0 0 1 0 1 11 1,717
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 1 44 0 4 22 243
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 1 194 0 6 45 842
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 0 1 20 1 1 14 92
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 0 0 11 0 0 8 48
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions 0 1 1 16 1 6 12 47
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 2 43 0 2 20 67
Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt? 0 0 0 33 0 3 12 186
Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt? 0 0 0 24 0 1 9 124
Discount Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 1 13 0 7 27 67
Discount Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 13 0 1 7 46
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms' Financial Constraints? 0 0 0 24 0 1 8 95
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms' Financial Constraints? 0 1 3 85 0 5 19 203
Do Firms Go Public to Raise Capital? 0 0 1 255 0 1 8 1,077
Does Uncertainty about Management Affect Firms' Costs of Borrowing? 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 48
Does Uncertainty about Management Affect Firms’ Costs of Borrowing? 0 0 0 14 0 0 8 62
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 0 1 6 514 2 9 58 1,630
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 1 2 5 589 3 7 42 2,034
Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do They Receive Better Terms? 0 0 0 13 0 0 9 100
Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do they Receive Better Terms? 0 0 0 8 0 1 8 100
Financing-Motivated Acquisitions 0 0 0 8 0 0 4 48
Financing-Motivated Acquisitions 0 0 0 19 0 0 16 95
Horses and Rabbits? Optimal Dynamic Capital Structure from Shareholder and Manager Perspectives 0 0 0 395 1 2 9 1,616
Hospital Governance, Performance Objectives, and Organizational Form 0 0 1 1,105 2 3 25 4,645
How Financial Management Affects Institutional Investors’ Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Insurers 0 0 0 25 0 2 8 60
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 0 49 0 2 17 103
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 0 33 1 1 21 95
Incentives of Divisional Managers: Evidence from Texax Banks 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 234
Incentives of Private Equity General Partners from Future Fundraising 0 0 1 40 0 0 13 152
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 0 14 0 0 5 50
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 0 38 0 1 19 93
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 0 2 153 0 1 12 478
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 0 0 0 130 1 3 12 386
Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 27 0 0 6 94
Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 19 0 2 13 111
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis 0 1 3 268 0 1 16 721
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis 0 1 3 206 0 4 16 543
Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry 0 0 1 19 1 2 10 126
Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry 0 0 0 11 0 0 6 70
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 0 56 0 1 13 250
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 1 113 0 0 17 434
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 1 93 0 0 21 466
Management Risk and the Cost of Borrowing 0 0 0 7 0 0 8 89
Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities 0 0 0 20 0 0 5 88
Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities 0 0 0 29 0 1 8 202
Measuring Institutional Investors' Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity 0 0 0 9 1 1 10 46
Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity 0 0 0 3 0 0 13 45
Measuring Investment Distortions when Risk-Averse Managers Decide Whether to Undertake Risky Projects 0 1 1 211 0 1 7 757
Motivations for Public Equity Offers: An International Perspective 0 0 0 143 1 4 14 490
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 4 215 1 12 39 889
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 1 2 45 0 1 14 188
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 0 0 1 14 1 1 10 140
Price Risk, Production Flexibility, and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Electricity Generating Firms 0 0 0 25 0 2 14 49
Price Risk, Production Flexibility, and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Electricity Generating Firms 0 0 0 47 1 5 17 73
Private Benefits and Cross-Listings in the United States 0 0 0 174 0 1 10 667
Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 3 22 2 7 46 132
Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 29
Protection of Minority Shareholder Interests, Cross-listings in the United States, and Subsequent Equity Offerings 0 0 0 800 1 1 13 5,169
Relationship-Specific Investments and Firms' Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 1 4 15 1 7 26 46
Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors' Monitoring 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 14
Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors’ Monitoring 0 0 0 14 1 4 15 45
Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds 0 0 0 59 1 10 25 155
Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds 2 2 3 5 3 6 22 31
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 2 51 0 1 15 151
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 0 89 0 4 19 188
Selling to Yourself: Continuation Funds in Private Equity 0 0 7 7 0 0 17 17
Specialized Investments and Firms' Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 0 0 8 0 1 6 35
Specialized Investments and Firms’ Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents 0 0 0 14 0 1 15 68
Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate 0 0 0 17 0 6 16 124
Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate 0 0 1 18 0 0 9 86
THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF FRANCHISE TERMINATION LAWS 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 926
The Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash: Replication, Extension, and Robustness 1 1 8 34 2 8 41 107
The Corporate Finance of Multinational Firms 0 0 1 32 3 7 29 180
The Corporate Finance of Multinational Firms 0 0 3 17 0 3 23 80
The Economics of Has-Beens 0 0 1 89 0 1 11 540
The Economics of PIPEs 0 0 1 10 1 3 17 81
The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 0 0 8 0 3 17 61
The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 0 1 2 26 1 9 27 106
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 3 246 1 1 23 937
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 0 4 924 0 4 43 3,863
The Role of Financial Conditions in Portfolio Choices: The Case of Insurers 0 0 0 17 2 2 7 62
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 1 2 584 1 4 36 1,613
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 1 173 0 2 13 334
The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence From Disvestitures 0 0 3 227 0 8 31 800
Transparency and Corporate Governance 0 0 1 415 0 3 24 1,639
Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence 0 0 0 37 0 1 18 141
Understanding Corporate Governance through Learning Models of Managerial Competence 0 0 0 9 0 2 12 60
What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues? 0 0 1 118 2 3 16 513
What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues? 0 0 0 57 0 0 5 244
What Do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings 0 0 1 34 0 0 12 118
What do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings 0 0 0 42 1 3 17 234
Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 0 140 0 2 17 349
Why are Buyouts Leveraged? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Firms 0 0 0 505 0 3 12 1,173
Why are Buyouts Levered: The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 1 745 0 3 17 2,138
Why are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 0 0 0 358 0 0 12 930
World Market for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 89 0 0 11 235
World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 95 0 0 11 234
World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions 0 0 0 43 1 1 7 115
World Markets for Raising New Capital 0 1 1 279 0 1 12 948
Total Working Papers 6 22 116 14,530 56 296 1,989 56,624


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An Agency Perspective on Franchising 0 0 0 0 1 1 25 899
Boards of directors as an endogenously determined institution: a survey of the economic literature 1 6 27 1,659 3 28 154 5,750
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts 2 6 29 165 10 31 137 720
CEO Investment Cycles 1 1 3 45 1 1 18 221
CEO turnover and the firm's investment decisions 0 0 3 226 1 1 17 531
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 0 1 11 163 2 8 58 715
Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions 0 1 2 15 1 2 8 67
Corporate financial and investment policies when future financing is not frictionless 0 0 4 155 1 7 67 817
Corporate governance and hostile takeovers 0 1 1 95 0 1 10 240
Determinants of Cross‐Border Mergers and Acquisitions 3 16 57 243 13 49 185 626
Did securitization affect the cost of corporate debt? 0 0 1 66 0 4 17 362
Discount‐Rate Risk in Private Equity: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions 1 4 8 28 1 9 46 125
Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms’ Financial Constraints? 0 0 0 73 0 2 17 381
Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO 1 5 28 885 6 32 122 2,758
Financial flexibility and the choice between dividends and stock repurchases 4 11 29 873 7 21 83 2,202
Governance, performance objectives and organizational form: evidence from hospitals 0 1 3 96 0 2 16 419
Horses and Rabbits? Trade-Off Theory and Optimal Capital Structure 0 0 1 82 0 1 8 291
How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt 0 0 0 9 0 0 11 76
Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers 0 0 1 16 0 1 23 142
Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance 1 2 9 170 2 8 72 744
Learning About CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility 0 0 0 29 0 2 19 218
Limited partner performance and the maturing of the private equity industry 0 1 5 129 9 16 62 551
Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising 0 0 2 140 0 2 15 602
Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill at Making Private Equity Investments 0 0 4 29 3 4 21 130
Measuring Investment Distortions when Risk-Averse Managers Decide Whether to Undertake Risky Projects 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 559
Measuring investment distortions arising from stockholder-bondholder conflicts 0 0 2 318 1 2 14 889
Motivations for public equity offers: An international perspective 2 3 12 403 2 7 41 1,146
Open-end mutual funds and capital-gains taxes 0 0 0 30 1 1 10 134
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 1 1 8 0 3 16 365
Outside directors and CEO turnover 1 16 46 2,423 4 29 121 6,016
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity 1 1 4 64 4 5 32 351
Private benefits and cross-listings in the United States 0 0 0 83 0 1 10 360
Protection of minority shareholder interests, cross-listings in the United States, and subsequent equity offerings 0 0 5 249 0 4 42 1,067
Reversions of Excess Pension Assets after Takeovers 0 0 0 29 0 0 6 311
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 1 1 2 17 2 5 35 114
Syndicated loan spreads and the composition of the syndicate 0 2 3 170 2 7 21 683
The Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash: Replication, Extension, and Robustness 1 4 15 15 2 13 61 61
The Determinants of Board Composition 1 2 7 707 2 6 45 2,130
The Economic Effects of Franchise Termination Laws 0 0 0 3 0 0 12 434
The Economics of Has-beens 0 0 1 99 1 3 9 613
The Effects of Board Composition and Direct Incentives on Firm Performance 0 0 0 0 6 21 86 4,219
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey 1 4 17 527 7 24 136 2,130
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 1 96 1 2 25 495
The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence from Divestitures 0 0 6 742 1 9 46 2,331
The economics of PIPEs 0 1 3 19 2 9 45 113
The liquidity cost of private equity investments: Evidence from secondary market transactions 0 6 16 43 1 18 62 205
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers 0 0 1 15 0 0 19 74
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 2 54 0 1 14 884
Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds 2 6 15 341 2 12 48 998
World markets for raising new capital 0 0 0 178 1 4 14 610
Total Journal Articles 24 103 387 12,024 103 421 2,191 46,879


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Corporate Governance 0 0 0 0 0 2 24 217
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 2 24 217


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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions 1 8 18 30 2 13 64 115
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning 0 0 0 0 2 5 24 51
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 0 0 1 1 44 329
The State of Corporate Governance Research 0 0 0 0 0 3 67 78
Total Chapters 1 8 18 30 5 22 199 573


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