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What Good Are Shareholder Rights?

One of the solutions bandied about for preventing sky-high executive pay and keeping banks from taking on excessive risk is to realign CEO incentives with those of shareholders. This sounds great in principle, but it turns out that it might not actually lead to improved management. In a new NBER paper, Andrea Beltratti of Bocconi University in Italy and Ren