We study the role of underwriter compensation in mitigating conflicts of interest between companies going public and their investment bankers. Making the bank’s compensation more sensitive to the issuer’s valuation should reduce agency conflicts and thus underpricing. Consistent with this prediction, we show that contracting on higher commissions in U.K. IPOs leads to significantly lower underp...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES Retention and recruitment of part time clinical adjunct faculty members in dental education is becoming increasingly difficult as dental schools come to rely on this workforce for their increased involvement in clinical education. Contributing factors include full time faculty shortage, aging workforce, practice and student debt, practice and family commitments, and financial...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between board structure, CEO compensation and firm performance in the context of an emerging economy, India. Using panel data on 462 manufacturing firms from the Indian corporate sector for the period 1997 to 2002 I would like to explore two specific issues. First, I have examined how the structure of the corporate board in terms of size and propor...

The aims of this article are to review the situation of occupational health and safety and to describe research priority in this field in Thailand. Thailand is one of newly industrialized countries in Southeast Asia. Approximately half of the working population is still in agriculture. The data from Thai Workmen's Compensation Fund showed that incidence rate of occupational injuries and disease...

background: burnout syndrome is the most dangerous threatening factor of worker’s health working in health. the aim of this study was determined the relationship between burnout and performance of health house workers in east azerbaijan. method: this is a cross sectional study which have been done on 89 health house workers in east azerbaijan’s. data collection by jackson and mazlak’s standard ...

In a recent issue of the Journal, Kirkeleit et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2013;177(11):1218-1224) provided empirical evidence for the potential of the healthy worker effect in a large cohort of Norwegian workers across a range of occupations. In this commentary, we provide some historical context, define the healthy worker effect by using causal diagrams, and use simulated data to illustrate how stru...