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How Should Retirement Plans Be Organized?
(2016-10)
Americans have a tough time saving for their retirement. To make matters worse, the move from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution plans (DC) over the years has required greater investor sophistication, discipline, ...
Why Don’t General Counsels Stop Corporate Crime?
(2016-07)
Corporate fraud is costly, involving hundreds of billions of dollars in lost reputational and out of pocket costs for stakeholders and hundreds of thousands of job losses for employees, suppliers and customers as well as ...
Manipulative Games of Gifts by Corporate Executives
(2016-02)
Executives use a variety of manipulative games to maximize the value of their gifts, including backdating, spring-loading, bullet-dodging and insider information. We find that executives exploit a legal loophole to backdate ...
Ending Executive Manipulations of Incentive Compensation
(2016-02)
In this article, we analyze whether the manipulation of stock options still continues to
this day. Our evidence shows that executives continue to employ a variety of manipulative devices to increase their compensation, ...