Essays in corporate governance
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis studies several topical areas in empirical corporate governance research. In the first chapter, I investigate the impact of hedge fund activism on firm operating performance. This is the first of a planned series of papers exploring how modern governance regimes interact with non-equity outcomes. In the second chapter, I connect the results of recent econometric work on challenges with difference-in-differences designs when the treatment timing is staggered to governance research, demonstrating the source of the bias and how it impacts the results of many published studies. This chapter is coauthored with my advisor David Larcker and Charles Wang of Harvard Business School, and is undergoing revisions at The Journal of Financial Economics. In the third chapter, I apply alternative estimation techniques to a long-running question in corporate governance---whether state antitakeover affect managerial incentives, finding that, contrary to much prior work (but consistent with legal argument), they do not.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Baker, Andrew |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Larcker, David F |
| Thesis advisor | Larcker, David F |
| Thesis advisor | Gelbach, Jonah B |
| Thesis advisor | Gipper, Brandon |
| Thesis advisor | Seru, Amit |
| Degree committee member | Gelbach, Jonah B |
| Degree committee member | Gipper, Brandon |
| Degree committee member | Seru, Amit |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Andrew Charles Baker. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Businessn. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/tf102cf9121 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Andrew Baker
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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