Martin C. Schmalz

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1.

Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership

Journal of Finance, 73(4), 2018
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 13 May 2018
José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz and Isabel Tecu
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, University of Oxford - Finance and Charles River Associates (CRA)
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Competition, Ownership, Diversification, Pricing, Antitrust, Governance, Product Market

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Payout Policy

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Payout Policy

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1227
Number of pages: 119 Posted: 25 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2016
Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance, The University of Hong Kong and University of Oxford - Finance
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Payout Policy; Survey; Dividends; Share Repurchases

Payout Policy

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 6, pp. 75-134, 2014
Posted: 25 Nov 2014
Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance, The University of Hong Kong and University of Oxford - Finance

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Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

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Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1328, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 511/2017
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 03 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2021
Miguel Anton, Florian Ederer, Mireia Gine and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Yale School of Management, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and University of Oxford - Finance
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Common ownership, competition, managerial incentives, productivity, corporate governance, antitrust

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6178
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 14 Oct 2020
Miguel Anton, Florian Ederer, Mireia Gine and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Yale School of Management, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and University of Oxford - Finance
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common ownership, competition, CEO pay, management incentives, governance

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12674
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 05 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2018
Miguel Anton, Florian Ederer, Mireia Gine and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Yale School of Management, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and University of Oxford - Finance
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CEO pay, Common ownership, Competition, corporate governance, management incentives

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Ultimate Ownership and Bank Competition

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 03 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 08 May 2019
José Azar, Sahil Raina and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta and University of Oxford - Finance
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Competition, Ownership, Diversification, Pricing, Antitrust, Governance, Product Market, Bank Competition

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Financing Payouts

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1263
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 09 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2020
Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance, The University of Hong Kong and University of Oxford - Finance
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Payout policy, financing decisions, debt issues, capital structure, cash management.

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Common-Ownership Concentration and Corporate Conduct

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Common-Ownership Concentration and Corporate Conduct

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 10, December 2018, CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6908
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 18 May 2018
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance
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ownership, control, network, industry concentration, antitrust, objective of the firm, shareholder unanimity

Common Ownership Concentration and Corporate Conduct

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12598
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 Jan 2018
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance
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Antitrust, control, industry concentration, network, objective of the firm, ownership, shareholder unanimity

Common-Ownership Concentration and Corporate Conduct

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 10, pp. 413-448, 2018
Posted: 08 Nov 2018
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance

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Unionization, Cash, and Leverage

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Unionization, Cash, and Leverage

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1215
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2016
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance
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Capital Structure, Cash, Risk Management, Labor Adjustment Costs, Unionization, Regression Discontinuity

Unionization, Cash, and Leverage

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12595
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Jan 2018
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance
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Capital Structure, cash, Labor Adjustment Costs, Regression Discontinuity, Risk management, Unionization

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Can Changes in the Cost of Carry Explain the Dynamics of Corporate 'Cash' Holdings?

Review of Financial Studies, April 2016, Ross School of Business Working Paper No. 1216
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2017
José Azar, Jean-François Kagy and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Cornerstone Research and University of Oxford - Finance
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corporate cash, cash hoarding, money demand

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Fund Flows and Market States

Review of Financial Studies, 2017, DOI:10.1093/rfs/hhx015
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 13 May 2013 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2017
Francesco A. Franzoni and Martin C. Schmalz
USI Lugano and University of Oxford - Finance
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Bayesian learning, parameter uncertainty, mutual funds, flow-performance, Kalman filter, beta

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Innovation: The Bright Side of Common Ownership?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2021
Miguel Anton, Florian Ederer, Mireia Gine and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Yale School of Management, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and University of Oxford - Finance
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common ownership, competition, innovation, R&D

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(Why) Do Central Banks Care about Their Profits?

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(Why) Do Central Banks Care about Their Profits?

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 05 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2020
Igor Goncharov, Vasso Ioannidou and Martin C. Schmalz
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, The Business School (formerly Cass) and University of Oxford - Finance
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Central Banks, Profitability, Non-Traditional Central Banking, Monetary Stability

(Why) Do Central Banks Care About Their Profits?

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6546
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Igor Goncharov, Vasso Ioannidou and Martin C. Schmalz
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, The Business School (formerly Cass) and University of Oxford - Finance
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central banks, profitability, non-traditional central banking, monetary stability

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Reply to: 'Common Ownership Does Not Have Anti-Competitive Effects in the Airline Industry'

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 10 May 2018
José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz and Isabel Tecu
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, University of Oxford - Finance and Charles River Associates (CRA)
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Competition, Ownership, Diversification, Pricing, Antitrust, Governance, Product Market

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The Competitive Effects of Common Ownership: Economic Foundations and Empirical Evidence: Reply

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 30 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2018
José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz and Isabel Tecu
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, University of Oxford - Finance and Charles River Associates (CRA)
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Competition, Ownership, Diversification, Pricing, Antitrust, Governance, Product Market

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Anxiety in the Face of Risk

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 610
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Thomas M. Eisenbach and Martin C. Schmalz
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York and University of Oxford - Finance
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risk premia, insurance, term structure, dynamic inconsistency

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Revealing Downturns

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Revealing Downturns

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2018
Martin C. Schmalz and Sergey Zhuk
University of Oxford - Finance and Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
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Learning, Asymmetry, Business Cycle, Earnings Response

Revealing Downturns

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6879
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 03 Apr 2018
Martin C. Schmalz and Sergey Zhuk
University of Oxford - Finance and Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
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financial economics, finance

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Common Ownership and Competition: Facts, Misconceptions, and What to Do About It - Background paper for OECD Hearing on Common Ownership by Institutional Investors and Its Impact on Competition

DAF/COMP/WD(2017)93
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 May 2018
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance
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Competition, Ownership, Diversification, Pricing, Antitrust, Governance, Product Market

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Horizon-Dependent Risk Aversion and the Timing and Pricing of Uncertainty

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 703
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 09 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2019
Marianne Andries, Thomas M. Eisenbach and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York and University of Oxford - Finance
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risk aversion, early resolution, term structure, volatility risk

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Housing Collateral and Entrepreneurship

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Housing Collateral and Entrepreneurship

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2015
Martin C. Schmalz, David Alexandre Sraer and David Thesmar
University of Oxford - Finance, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Collateral; Entrepreneurship; Real estate

Housing Collateral and Entrepreneurship

NBER Working Paper No. w19680
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2021
Martin C. Schmalz, David Alexandre Sraer and David Thesmar
University of Oxford - Finance, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Anxiety and Pro-cyclical Risk Taking with Bayesian Agents

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 711
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2019
Thomas M. Eisenbach and Martin C. Schmalz
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York and University of Oxford - Finance
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overconfidence, dynamic inconsistency, biases, deception, risk taking

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Why Common Ownership Creates Antitrust Risks

CPI Antitrust Chronicle June 2017
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jun 2017
José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz and Isabel Tecu
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, University of Oxford - Finance and Charles River Associates (CRA)
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Competition, Ownership, Pricing, Antitrust, Governance, Product Market

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Pooling and Tranching under Belief Disagreement

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Pooling and Tranching under Belief Disagreement

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2019
Juan Ortner and Martin C. Schmalz
Boston University and University of Oxford - Finance
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Disagreement, Security Design, Optimism, Overconfidence, Pooling, Tranching, Behavioral Finance

Disagreement and Optimal Security Design

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6906
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Apr 2018
Juan Ortner and Martin C. Schmalz
Boston University and University of Oxford - Finance
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disagreement, security design, optimism, overconfidence, pooling, behavioral finance

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The Term Structure of the Price of Variance Risk

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 736
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Aug 2015
Marianne Andries, Thomas M. Eisenbach, Martin C. Schmalz and Yichuan Wang
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, University of Oxford - Finance and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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volatility risk, option returns, straddle, term structure

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Internet Appendix for: 'Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership'

Journal of Finance, Vol. 73, No. 4, 2018
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 May 2018
José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz and Isabel Tecu
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, University of Oxford - Finance and Charles River Associates (CRA)
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Competition, Ownership, Diversification, Pricing, Antitrust, Governance, Product Market

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Recent Studies on Common Ownership, Firm Behavior, and Market Outcomes

Martin C. Schmalz, Recent studies on common ownership, firm behavior, and market outcomes, Antitrust Bulletin 66 (1), 2021
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance
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ownership, control, industry concentration, antitrust, competition, managerial incentives, corporate governance

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Research on the Competitive Consequences of Common Ownership: A Methodological Critique

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Jan 2021
José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz and Isabel Tecu
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, University of Oxford - Finance and Charles River Associates (CRA)
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Competition, Ownership, Diversification, Pricing, Antitrust, Governance, Product Market

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Common Ownership Theories, Governance ‘Mechanisms’ & Policy (Presentation Slides)

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Dec 2019
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance
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ownership, control, network, industry concentration, antitrust, objective of the firm, shareholder unanimity

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Inequality and Market Concentration, when Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption

CAMA Working Paper No. 62/2018
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 14 Dec 2018
Joshua Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin C. Schmalz and Adam Triggs
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Australian House of Representatives Parliament House, University of Oxford - Finance and Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy
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Monopoly, market power, inequality

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Empirical Studies of Common Ownership-Effects on Product Markets & Innovation (Presentation Slides)

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Nov 2019
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance
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ownership, control, network, industry concentration, antitrust, objective of the firm, shareholder unanimity

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Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Jan 2019
Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin C. Schmalz and Adam Triggs
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Australian House of Representatives Parliament House, University of Oxford - Finance and Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy
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monopoly, market power, inequality

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Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption

CESifo Working Paper No. 7402
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Feb 2019
Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin C. Schmalz and Adam Triggs
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Australian House of Representatives Parliament House, University of Oxford - Finance and Australian National University (ANU)
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monopoly, market power, inequality

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Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption

NBER Working Paper No. w25395
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Dec 2018
Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin C. Schmalz and Adam Triggs
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Australian House of Representatives Parliament House, University of Oxford - Finance and Australian National University (ANU)
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Online Appendix to 'Revealing Downturns'

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 19 May 2018
Martin C. Schmalz and Sergey Zhuk
University of Oxford - Finance and Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
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Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12034
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Jan 2019
Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin C. Schmalz and Adam Triggs
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Australian House of Representatives Parliament House, University of Oxford - Finance and Australian National University (ANU)
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monopoly, market power, inequality

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Disagreement and Security Design

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12596
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Jan 2018
Juan Ortner and Martin C. Schmalz
Boston University and University of Oxford - Finance
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behavioral finance, disagreement, Optimism, overconfidence, pooling, security design, tranching

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Relative Performance Provisions and Competitive Incentives

Posted: 30 Oct 2018
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance

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compensation, incentives, common ownership, competition, relative performance, antitrust

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Common Ownership and Fiduciary Duty

Posted: 08 Oct 2018
Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Finance

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fiduciary duty, diversification, profit maximization, shareholder value

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Revealing Downturns

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12597
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Jan 2018
Martin C. Schmalz and Sergey Zhuk
University of Oxford - Finance and Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
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Asymmetry, Bayesian Learning, Business cycle, Earnings Response