The paper investigates the role of CEO's equity and risk incentives in boosting securitization in the financial industry and in motivating executives to reduce the perceived risk while betting on it. Using a sample of US financial institutions over the period 2003-2009 we document that CEOs with...

Incentive compensation is a central concern in the relationship between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the board of directors and between the CEO and shareholders. This book presents a focus on four key themes that are salient to the current debate on the consequences and determinants of...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the economic determinants and the effects on firm value of the Chief Marketing Officer’s (CMO’s) equity incentives. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical analysis uses 586 firm-year observations corresponding to 227 unique firms collected...