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Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the U.S : Perceptions, Facts and Challenges

Kaplan, Steven N. - 2012

In this paper, I consider the evidence for three common perceptions of U.S. public company CEO pay and corporate governance: (1) CEOs are overpaid and their pay keeps increasing; (2) CEOs are not paid for their performance; and (3) boards do not penalize CEOs for poor performance. While average...

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Promotions and the Peter Principle

Benson, Alan - 2018

The best worker is not always the best candidate for manager. In these cases, do firms promote the best potential manager or the best worker in her current job? Using microdata on the performance of sales workers at 214 firms, we find evidence consistent with the “Peter Principle,” which...

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Wall Street and Main Street : What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

Rauh, Joshua D. - 2007

We consider how much of the top end of the income distribution can be attributed to four sectors -- top executives of non-financial firms (Main Street); financial service sector employees from investment banks, hedge funds, private equity funds, and mutual funds (Wall Street); corporate lawyers;...

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How Do Quasi-Random Option Grants Affect CEO Risk-Taking?

Shue, Kelly - 2019

We examine how an increase in stock option grants affects CEO risk-taking. The overall net effect of option grants is theoretically ambiguous for risk-averse CEOs. To overcome the endogeneity of option grants, we exploit institutional features of multi-year compensation plans, which generate two...

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Growth Through Rigidity : An Explanation for the Rise in CEO Pay

Shue, Kelly - 2018

The dramatic rise in CEO compensation during the 1990s and early 2000s is a longstanding puzzle. In this paper, we show that much of the rise can be explained by a tendency of firms to grant the same number of options each year. Number-rigidity implies that the grant-date value of option awards...

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CEO Personality and Firm Policies

Gow, Ian D. - 2016

Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness,...

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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany

Kaplan, Steven N. - 2021

This paper examines executive turnover -- both for management and supervisory boards - - and its relation to firm … performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year … management board increases significantly with stock performance and particularly poor (i.e. negative) earnings, but is unrelated …

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Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

Kaplan, Steven N. - 2014

We study the characteristics and abilities of CEO candidates for companies involved in buyout (LBO) and venture capital (VC) transactions and relate them to hiring decisions, investment decisions, and company performance. Candidates are assessed on more than thirty individual abilities. The...

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Are CEOS Different? Characteristics of Top Managers

Kaplan, Steven N. - 2017

We use a dataset of over 2,600 executive assessments to study thirty individual characteristics of candidates for top executive positions – CEO, CFO, COO and others. We classify the thirty candidate characteristics with four primary factors: general ability, execution vs. interpersonal,...

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What is CEO Overconfidence? Evidence from Executive Assessments

Kaplan, Steven N.; Sorensen, Morten; Zakolyukina, … - 2022

We use detailed assessments of CEO personalities to explore the option-based measure of CEO overconfidence, Longholder, introduced by Malmendier and Tate (2005a) and widely used in the behavioral corporate finance and economics literatures. Longholder is significantly related to several specific...

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