Capital Structure and Corporate Control: The Effect of Antitakeover Statutes on Firm Leverage

The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems

1993 • 8,534 citations

Management ownership and market valuation

1988 • 7,109 citations

Managerial discretion and optimal financing policies

1990 • 3,683 citations

Managerial control of voting rights

1988 • 2,602 citations

Management entrenchment

1989 • 2,153 citations

Optimal Capital Structure, Endogenous Bankruptcy, and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads

1996 • 2,014 citations

Managerial Entrenchment and Capital Structure Decisions

1997 • 1,558 citations

Corporate Financial Structure and Managerial Incentives

1982 • 1,063 citations

Good Timing: CEO Stock Option Awards and Company News Announcements

1997 • 1,048 citations

Timing, investment opportunities, managerial discretion, and the security issue decision

1996 • 994 citations

Poison or placebo? Evidence on the deterrence and wealth effects of modern antitakeover measures

1995 • 820 citations

Dynamic Capital Structure under Managerial Entrenchment

1996 • 578 citations

CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms: An Empirical Analysis

1993 • 475 citations

Capital Structure and Product Market Behavior: An Examination of Plant Exit and Investment Decisions

1997 • 369 citations

The wealth effects of second-generation state takeover legislation

1989 • 356 citations

Debt and Seniority: An Analysis of the Role of Hard Claims in Constraining Management

1994 • 244 citations

Capital Structure and the Market for Corporate Control: The Defensive Role of Debt Financing

1991 • 169 citations

DEBT AND SENIORiTY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF HARD CLAIMS

1994 • 129 citations

Defensive Changes in Corporate Payout Policy: Share Repurchases and Special Dividends

1990 • 121 citations

Strategy for Financial Mobility.

1970 • 108 citations

Targeting Capital Structure: The Relationship Between Risky Debt and the Firm's Likelihood of Being Acquired

1996 • 96 citations

Event Risk: An Analysis of Losses to Bondholders and “Super Poison Put” Bond Covenants

1991 • 75 citations

Capital Structure as an Optimal Contract Between Employees and Investors

1992 • 72 citations

State takeover legislation and share values: The wealth effects of Pennsylvania's Act 36

1995 • 71 citations

Who Opts out of State Antitakeover Protection?: The Case of Pennsylvania's SB 1310

1995 • 34 citations

RETHINKING TAKEOVER REGULATION

1992 • 29 citations