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Firm value and managerial incentives: a stochastic frontier approach

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2005
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Habib, M. A., & Ljungqvist, A. (2005). Firm value and managerial incentives: a stochastic frontier approach. The Journal of Business, 78(6), 2053–2094. https://doi.org/10.1086/497040

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Abstract

We provide a direct estimate of the magnitude of agency costs in publicly held corporations. We compute an explicit performance benchmark that compares a firm's actual Tobin's Q to the Q* of a hypothetical value-maximizing firm having the same inputs and characteristics as the original firm. The Q of the average sample firm is around 16% below its Q*, equivalent to a

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78

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6

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2053

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2094

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Journal Article

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2005-11-01

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2020-08-14

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0021-9398

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merlin-id:19637

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44 since deposited on 2020-08-14
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91 since deposited on 2020-08-14
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Habib, M. A., & Ljungqvist, A. (2005). Firm value and managerial incentives: a stochastic frontier approach. The Journal of Business, 78(6), 2053–2094. https://doi.org/10.1086/497040

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