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CEO Compensation
Frydman, Carola - 2010
result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others interpret high pay as the result of optimal contracting in a …
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Pay Cuts for the Boss : Executive Compensation in the 1940s
Frydman, Carola - 2011
Executive pay fell during the 1940s, marking the last notable decrease in the past 70 years. We study this decline using a new panel dataset on the remuneration of top executives in 246 firms. We find that government regulation--including explicit salary restrictions and taxation--had, at best,...
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Executive Compensation : Facts
Clementi, Gian Luca - 2010
In this paper we describe the important features of executive compensation in the US from 1993 to 2006. Some confirm what has been found for earlier periods and some are novel. Important facts about compensation are that: the compensation distribution is highly skewed; each year, a sizeable...
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Bank CEO Incentives and the Credit Crisis
Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2010
We investigate whether bank performance during the credit crisis of 2008 is related to CEO incentives and share ownership before the crisis and whether CEOs reduced their equity stakes in their banks in anticipation of the crisis. There is no evidence that banks with CEOs whose incentives were...
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Dynamic Incentive Accounts
Edmans, Alex - 2009
Contracts in a dynamic model must address a number of issues absent from static frameworks. Shocks to firm value may weaken the incentive effects of securities (e.g. cause options to fall out of the money), and the impact of some CEO actions may not be felt until far in the future. We derive the...
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Optimal Executive Compensation vs. Managerial Power : A Review of Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's "Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation"
Weisbach, Michael S. - 2007
This essay reviews Bebchuk and Fried's quot;Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensationquot;. Bebchuk and Fried criticize the standard view of executive compensation, in which executives negotiate contracts with shareholders that provide incentives that motivate...
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Why Has CEO Pay Increased so Much?
Gabaix, Xavier - 2006
This paper develops a simple equilibrium model of CEO pay. CEOs have different talents and are matched to firms in a competitive assignment model. In market equilibrium, a CEO%u2019s pay changes one for one with aggregate firm size, while changing much less with the size of his own firm. The...
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Executive Compensation : Six Questions that Need Answering
Abowd, John M. - 2002
In this article, we focus on how recent research advances can be used to address the following six questions: (1) How much does executive compensation cost the firm? (2) How much is executive compensation worth to the recipient? (3) How well does executive compensation work? (4) What are the...
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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs
Beaudry, Paul - 2010
Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …
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Executive Compensation and Incentives : the Impact of Takeover Legislation
Bertrand, Marianne - 2010
We investigate the impact of changes in states' anti-takeover legislation on executive compensation. We find both pay for performance sensitivities and mean pay increase for the firms affected by the legislation (relative to a control group). These findings are partially consistent with an...
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