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What do we know about China's CEO's?: evidence from across the whole economy
Bryson, Alex; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
All that we know about the CEO labour market in China comes from studies of public listed companies and state … China that exhibits many of the traits common to CEO labour markets in the West. …
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Who posts performance bonds and why?: evidence from China's CEOs
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
important feature in today's CEO labour market in China: around one-tenth of corporations deploy performance bonds and they are … is consistent with optimal reward structures for multi-tasking agents. Those CEOs posting bonds are higher in the … Communist Party ranks, were promoted via tournaments, and run larger firms, findings consistent with using bonds as an incentive …
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CEO incentive contracts in China: why does city location matter?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We …
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
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Executive compensation and product market competition
Cuñat, Vicente; Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The aim of this paper is to study the effects of product market competition on the explicit compensation packages that firms offer to their executives. In order to measure the net effect of competition we use two different identification strategies. The first exploits cross sectoral variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071396
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Executive compensation and competition in the banking and financial sectors
Cuñat, Vicente; Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper studies the effect of deregulation and increased product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their executives. We use a panel of US executives in the nineties and exploit the deregulation episodes in the banking and financial sectors as quasi-natural...
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Say pays! Shareholder voice and firm performance
Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-sponsored SoP proposals. Adopting SoP leads to large increases...
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The effect of monitoring on CEO pay practices in a matching equilibrium
Chaigneau, Pierre; Sahuguet, Nicolas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
CEOs. The model explains the association between limited monitoring and CEO pay practices such as pay-for-luck, high … matching equilibrium: firms with different capacities for monitoring hire different types of CEOs and offer different …
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When pressure sinks performance: evidence from diving competitions
Garbi, Elni; Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
Tournaments are designed to enhance participants’ effort and productivity. However, ranking near the top may increase … international diving tournaments. We find that competitors systematically underperform when ranked closer to the top, despite higher …
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Risk taking and performance in multistage tournaments: evidence from weightlifting competitions
Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
participating in international weightlifting competitions. Weightlifting competitions are multistage tournaments with the unique …
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