Author Archive | Patricia Kotnik and Mustafa Erdem Sakinc

We aim to assess the impact of acquisitions on growth of European high-tech entrepreneurial firms. The paper explores whether firms acquired by a corporate investor enjoy higher growth than their non-acquired counterparts and whether the effect on target firm growth differs between foreign and domestic acquirers. It also explores whether firms acquired by a corporate […]

This paper adds to the empirical evidence on the extent to which the European executives are incentivized and rewarded by stock-based pay. It shows that stock-based compensation of CEOs in European listed firms is usually underestimated and it documents the heterogeneity among countries. We base our work on a sample of 303 large, publicly-traded companies […]