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Directeur général

Publications associées (6)

Einsatz von Nichtmarktstrategien durch oeffentliche Unternehmen gegenueber dem Staat : Untersuchung am Beispiel der Schweizerischen Post AG

Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Public enterprises operate in the area between the opposing poles of state and market. On the one hand they must meet a wide range of political expectations, and on the other they must fulfil commercial efficiency criteria. This dissertation addresses how ...

EPFL2017

CEO contract design: How do strong principals do it?

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

We study changes in chief executive officer (CEO) contracts when firms transition from public ownership with dispersed owners to private ownership with strong principals in the form of private equity sponsors. The most significant changes are that a signif ...

Elsevier2013

Bank CEO incentives and the credit crisis

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

We investigate whether bank performance during the recent credit crisis is related to chief executive officer (CEO) incentives before the crisis. We find some evidence that banks with CEOs whose incentives were better aligned with the interests of sharehol ...

2011

Former CEO Directors: Lingering CEOs or Valuable Resources?

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

We investigate corporate governance experts' claim that it is detrimental to a firm to reappoint former CEOs as directors after they step down as CEOs. We find that more successful and more powerful former CEOs are more likely to be reappointed to the boar ...

Oxford University Press2011

Why do firms appoint CEOs as outside directors?

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

Companies actively seek to appoint outside CEOs to their boards. Consistent with our matching theory of outside CEO board appointments, we show that such appointments have a certification benefit for the appointing firm. CEOs are more likely to join boards ...

Elsevier2010

Shareholder Rights, Boards, and CEO Compensation

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

I analyze the role of executive compensation in corporate governance. As proxies for corporate governance, I use board size, board independence, CEO-chair duality, institutional ownership concentration, CEO tenure, and an index of shareholder rights. The r ...

2008

Publications associées (6)

Einsatz von Nichtmarktstrategien durch oeffentliche Unternehmen gegenueber dem Staat : Untersuchung am Beispiel der Schweizerischen Post AG

Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

EPFL2017