Livne, Gilad; Markarian, Garen; Mironov, Maxim - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 9, pp. 3669-3680
consequences for risk and performance. We find that banks with short-term investment intensity pay more cash bonus, exhibit higher … risk and perform more poorly than banks with longer-term investment intensity. This evidence is broadly consistent with the … view that short-term means of compensation encouraged a short-term investment focus, which in turn led to both higher risk …