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John E. Core
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 87
Citations - 19554
John E. Core is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Executive compensation & Corporate governance. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 86 publications receiving 18137 citations. Previous affiliations of John E. Core include University of Pennsylvania.
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Corporate governance, chief executive officer compensation, and firm performance
TL;DR: This article found that measures of board and ownership structure explain a significant amount of cross-sectional variation in CEO compensation, after controlling for standard economic determinants of pay, and that CEOs earn greater compensation when governance structures are less effective.
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Estimating the Value of Employee Stock Option Portfolios and Their Sensitivities to Price and Volatility
John E. Core,Wayne R. Guay +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an accurate method of estimating option portfolio value and the sensitivities of option portfolio values to stock price and stock-return volatility that is easily implemented using data from only the current year's proxy statement or annual report.
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The Use of Equity Grants to Manage Optimal Equity Incentive Levels
John E. Core,Wayne R. Guay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors predict that firms use annual grants of options and restricted stock to CEOs to manage the optimal level of equity incentives, and use the residuals from this model to measure deviations between CEOs’ holdings of equity incentive and optimal levels.
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The use of equity grants to manage optimal equity incentive levels
John E. Core,Wayne R. Guay +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors predict that firms use annual grants of options and restricted stock to CEOs to manage the optimal level of equity incentives, and use the residuals from this model to measure deviations between CEOs’ holdings of equity incentive and optimal levels.
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A review of the empirical disclosure literature: discussion ☆
TL;DR: Healy and Palepu as mentioned in this paper provide a broad review of the empirical disclosure literature, and assume firms’ disclosure policies are endogenously determined by the same forces that shape firms' governance structures and management incentives.