Once Burned, Twice Shy? Financial Literacy and Wealth Losses during the Financial Crisis
Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Michael Ziegelmeyer
Review of Finance, Volume 18, Issue 6, October 2014, Pages 2215–2246, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rft052
The financial downturn and economic crisis of 2007 and 2008 stretched financial institutions, politicians, and corporations to their limits.… Read more...
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Bank Regulation, CEO Compensation, and Boards
Julian Kolm, Christian Laux, Gyöngyi Lóránth
Review of Finance, Volume 21, Issue 5, August 2017, Pages 1901–1932, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfw046
Bank compensation regulation is a new tool that was introduced after the financial crisis of 2008-2009.… Read more...
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How Important Are Risk-Taking Incentives in Executive Compensation?
Ingolf Dittmann, Ko-Chia Yu, Dan Zhang
Review of Finance, Volume 21, Issue 5, August 2017, Pages 1805–1846, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfx019
There is an extensive discussion whether risk-taking incentives play a role in executive compensation.… Read more...
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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance
Vicente Cuñat, Mireia Giné, Maria Guadalupe
Review of Finance, Volume 20, Issue 5, August 2016, Pages 1799–1834, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfv056
How much “voice” should shareholders have in a firm? How valuable are shareholder’s views on overall firm performance?… Read more...
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Executive Compensation and Risk Taking
Patrick Bolton, Hamid Mehran, Joel Shapiro
Review of Finance, Volume 19, Issue 6, October 2015, Pages 2139–2181, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfu049
Since before the financial crisis, excess risk-taking at highly levered financial institutions has been a large concern.… Read more...
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“In the Path of the Storm: Does Distress Risk Cause Industrial Firms to Risk-Shift?
Kevin Aretz, Shantanu Banerjee, Oksana Pryshchepa
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 6, October 2019, Pages 1115–1154, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfy028>
Moderately-distressed industrial firms risk-shift upon being hit by a hurricane strike by investing into high-risk, low-value segments.… Read more...
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“Forgive but Not Forget”: The Behavior of Relationship Banks When Firms Are in Distress
Larissa Schäfer
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 6, October 2019, Pages 1079–1114, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfy031
Relationship lending constitutes one of the most important comparative advantages of bank lending to firms.… Read more...
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Governance under the Gun: Spillover Effects of Hedge Fund Activism (Editor’s choice)
Nickolay Gantchev, Oleg R Gredil, Chotibhak Jotikasthira
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 6, October 2019, Pages 1031–1068, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfy035
The lead article in Volume 23, Issue 6 of the Review of Finance is Governance under the Gun: Spillover Effects of Hedge Fund Activism by Nickolay Gantchev, Oleg R Gredil, Chotibhak Jotikasthira.… Read more...
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Stefan Avdjiev, El?d Takáts
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 5, September 2019, Pages 993–1029, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfy030
We demonstrate that currency networks in cross-border bank lending have a significant impact on the size, distribution and direction of international monetary policy spillovers.… Read more...
Social Norms and Household Savings Rates in China
Yvonne Jie Chen, Zhiwu Chen, Shijun He
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 5, September 2019, Pages 961–991, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfy029
Can social norms affect households’ savings behaviors? Research findings in Social Norms and Household Savings Rates in China suggest that the filial piety social norms, which argue that children have unconditional obligations to their elderly parents, make households save less.… Read more...
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