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Francesca Franco

BS (Bocconi) PhD (Padova) Post-doc (Wharton)
Assistant Professor of Accounting

Subject area:
Accounting

Publications

Premium Pay for executive talent: an empirical analysis (with M.E. Carter & I. Tuna, working paper 2010); The Value of Corporate Diversification: A Debt Market Perspective (with O.Urcan & F. Vasvari, working paper 2010); Do incentives really matter? Contractual determinants of incentive payouts to employees (working paper, 2009); Give me more stock: equity deferral elections by outside corporate directors (working paper, 2009); The Effects of Contract Design and Implementation Practices on Worker Incentive Plan Outcomes (with C Ittner and D Larcker, working paper, 2008).

Research interest

Incentive Contracting, Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance.

Other activities

Fellow, American Accounting Association; Member, European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management

Formerly

Post Doctoral Research Fellow, The Wharton School; Visiting Doctoral Student, The Wharton School; Research Associate and Lecturer, Bocconi University

Contact Details

Email: ffranco@london.edu

tel: +44 (0)20 7000 8113
fax: +44 (0)20 7000 7001

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