Essays on empirical corporate finance
In this thesis, I examine a few corporate finance topics, including mergers and acquisitions, CEO compensations, and corporate governance. The first paper studies the effect of managerial horizon on acquisition activities. Managers with a long horizon emphasize firms’ long-term value, whereas short-...
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University of British Columbia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8038 |