CEO educational background and acquisition targets selection

Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers

Michael C. Jensen · American Economic Review · 1986 · 17.6K citations

Management, Business Economics, Finance +17

Corporate Governance and Equity Prices

Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii, Andrew Metrick · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2003 · 5.9K citations

Management, Business Economics, Corporate Governance +15

Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability: Theory and Evidence

Emily Oster · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 2016 · 5K citations · Full text

Public Health, Economics, Causal Inference +13

The Hubris Hypothesis of Corporate Takeovers

Richard Roll · The Journal of Business · 1986 · 3.9K citations

Business, Business Economics, Economics +9

Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools

Joseph G. Altonji, Todd E. Elder, Christopher Taber · Journal of Political Economy · 2005 · 3.7K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Causal Inference +16