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This paper proposes to exploit a reform in legal rules of corporate governance to identify contractual incentives from … institutional environment, the reform of the German joint-stock companies act in 1884. We analyze a sample of executive pay for 46 … firms for the years 1870 to 1911. In 1884, a law reform substantially enhanced corporate control, strengthened the …
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This paper provides a brief review of the state of knowledge in the field of agency theory. The managerial power approach assumes that a chief executive officer is able to affect the scale of his or her pay. However, Kaplan (2012) and others see a different picture of the corporate-governance...
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This study investigates the impact of excluding stock options for non-executive directors (NEDs) on the relationship between executive pay and firm performance. The research focuses on accounting measures and market performance. Using a sample of 220 non-financial firms, including 110 listed...
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