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CEO Compensation and Returns to Public and Private Acquisitions: Testing the Shareholder Value Hypothesis (view source)
Revision as of 19:35, 15 August 2017
, 19:35, 15 August 2017→Variables
The unit of observation is an executive's compensation year, or firm and (year-1). Each observation must have a CEO identifier, a year, and CEO compensation info. Each observation also must have lagged acquisition information, though many of these variables will be zero, and should have lagged firm level control variables.
ID variable:
ceofirmid - a unique id number for each ceo-firm pair. CEOs may serve as CEOs of more than one firm. This addresses this issue.
CEO variables:
