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An activist view of CEO compensation
Baum, Alex; Hale, Robert; Morfit, Mason; Larcker, David F. - 2017
Understanding CEO compensation plans is a continuing challenge for directors and investors. The disclosure of these plans is dictated by SEC rules that rely heavily on the “fair value” of awards at the time they are granted. The problem with these numbers is that they are static and do not...
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CEO pay at valeant : does extreme compensation create extreme risk?
Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2016
Valeant directly a result of the incentives placed on its CEO? Would they have occurred if the incentives were less aggressive …
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The relation between equity incentives and misreporting : the role of risk-taking incentives
Armstrong, Christopher; Larcker, David F.; Ormazabal, Gaizka - In: Journal of financial economics 109 (2013) 2, pp. 327-350
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Mega Grants : Why Would a Board Approve Nine-Figure CEO Pay?
Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2023
Recent years have seen a reemergence of the practice of awarding “mega grants” to CEOs. Mega grants are large, one-time equity awards granted in lieu of or in addition to annual awards with the intended purpose of providing significant incentive to the CEO to achieve long-term targets. The...
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Corporate Governance, CEO Compensation, and Firm Performance
Core, John E.; Holthausen, Robert W.; Larcker, David F. - 2011
firms with more entrenched managers or poorer governance systems perform worse …
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The Relation between Equity Incentives and Misreporting : The Role of Risk-Taking Incentives
Armstrong, Chris - 2013
provide managers with incentives to misreport when they make managers less averse to equity risk … that the incentives provided by vega subsume those of delta. Collectively, our results suggest that equity portfolios …
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Performance-Based Incentives for Internal Monitors
Armstrong, Chris - 2012
's production function, when other top managers receive greater incentives, and when a firm has lower expected litigation risk. We …This study examines the use of performance-based incentives for internal monitors (general counsel and chief internal … auditor) and whether these incentives impair monitors' independence by aligning their interests with the interests of those …
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Governance aches and pains : is bad governance chronic?
Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2016
Institutional investors pay considerable attention to the quality of a company's governance. Unfortunately, it is difficult for outside observers to reliably gauge governance quality. Oftentimes, poor governance manifests itself only after decisions have been made and their outcomes known. We...
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Pay for Performance… But Not Too Much Pay : The American Public's View of CEO Pay
Larcker, David F. - 2019
Among the controversies in corporate governance, perhaps none is more heated or widely debated across society than that of CEO pay. The views that American citizens have on CEO pay is centrally important because public opinion influences political decisions that shape tax, economic, and...
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CEO Pay, Performance, and Value Sharing
Donatiello, Nicholas - 2016
CEO compensation is a highly controversial subject. While most company directors believe that CEO pay is not a problem, the majority of the American public believes that it is. The difficulties that boards face in justifying CEO pay levels in some ways stem from the challenge of quantifying how...
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