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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? : a panel data analysis for 1977 - 2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

contributed to the rise in executive pay in Germany. Lastly, we show that CEOs in the banking sector are provided with incentives …The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypotheses in …

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Say pays! : shareholder voice and firm performance

Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - 2014

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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How do labor representatives affect incentive orientation of executive compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2016

interest in increasing incentive-based compensation to avoid management's excessive risk taking and short-run oriented …

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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas

Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014

We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...

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Employee stock purchase plans : gift or incentive? ; evidence from a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - 2014

Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...

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Team incentives, task assignment, and Performance : a field experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Souverijn, Michiel - 2017

incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance – in particular when the incentive … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …

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Multitasking and subjective performance evaluations : theory and evidence from a field experiment in a bank

Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to … span of control is larger and incentives are distorted towards more profitable tasks. We then investigate a field …

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CEO and board characteristics as determinants of private benefits of control : evidence from the Russian stock exchange

Berezinec, Irina V.; Ilina, Julja; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011

This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...

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Bonus payments, hierarchy levels and tenure : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence

Grund, Christian; Kräkel, Matthias - 2010

levels and rather for management jobs than for jobs in research and development. This is true for the whole chemical sector …

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Management compensation and the economic crisis : longitudinal evidence from the German chemical sector

Grund, Christian; Hofmann, Tanja - 2013

Making use of unique balanced panel data for the German chemical sector from the years 2008 to 2011, we explore the extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards. Carrying out longitudinal analyses, we find that, on...

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