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Aligned Incentives: Envisioning Syzygy, Karl T. Muth
Aligned Incentives: Envisioning Syzygy, Karl T. Muth
Karl T Muth
In the wake of the failure of AIG, this paper deals with the question of whether incentive alignment is truly the problem with contemporary insurance products (as many in the media and the economics community have alleged) by examining two hypothetical types of insurance where incentives are extraordinarily well-aligned.
Guioco Piano: The Acquiree's Dilemma, Karl T. Muth, Hans Trees
Guioco Piano: The Acquiree's Dilemma, Karl T. Muth, Hans Trees
Karl T Muth
This article discusses strategic decisions made by the acquiree in an M&A scenario and also includes a case study on Zond Energy and Enron.
With Avarice Aforethought: Insider Trading And 10b5-1 Plans, Karl T. Muth
With Avarice Aforethought: Insider Trading And 10b5-1 Plans, Karl T. Muth
Karl T Muth
The 10b5-1 plan and its growing popularity create a variety of governance problems and temptations for executives at publicly-traded corporations. The thought, in creating a safe harbor for such plans, was to allow insiders to diversify their individual holdings while in possession of nonpublic, material information. The 10b5-1 plan allows the actual liquidation transaction to occur while the plan participant is in possession of inside information, so long as the orders or instructions causing the trade were created as part of a "plan" that predates the insider's acquisition of the pertinent information. This creates a sort of time machine, where …