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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009
Fabbri, Francesca - 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 - 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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The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans : Evidence from Korean Panel Data
Kato, Takao - 2010
We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee financial participation schemes, such as Profit Sharing Plans (PSPs), Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Stock Option Plans (SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we...
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CEO and Board Characteristics as Determinants of Private Benefits of Control : Evidence from the Russian Stock Exchange
Berezinets, Irina - 2012
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 - 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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Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence Among Managers in a German Company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2013
' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce … bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael - 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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Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance : A Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2018
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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Employee Stock Purchase Plans : Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation
Bryson, Alex - 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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Differentiation and Performance : An Empirical Investigation on the Incentive Effects of Bonus Plans
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011
in a simple model that the perceived degree of past differentiation affects future incentives. We then study the impact …
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