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John Core

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Ira A. Lipman Professor; Professor of Accounting



Research Publications Biography

Research Areas

Executive compensation and incentives; employee stock options; corporate governance; governance of charities; firm valuation and cost of capital; corporate disclosure

Current Projects

Determinants of the cost of capital; CEO pay and incentives in the US vs. UK and Europe; wealth-based contracting; measuring disclosure quality with computational linguistics; how much endowment should a charity hold?; how to give money to maximize charity.