Empirical studies estimating the impact of firm performance on executive pay have primarily concentrated on the short-run response. In this study, we present estimates of the complete dynamic response of CEO pay to firm performance. We find that 1) the cumulative response of pay to firm...

The results of this study are that important intertemporal effects exist in the compensation-performance relation. This finding is important to the design of empirical studies of compensation and performance. The results further support the idea that the future income implications of good...