excessive risk, (2) whether executive compensation in larger banks, especially the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) banks, induces more … severe moral hazard behavior, and (3) how the relation between bank executive compensation and risk taking changes before and … during the recent financial crisis. We find that bank risk measured by the Z-score and the volatility of stock returns …

convexity results in a 21% increase in a firm's crash risk after controlling for managerial price-increasing incentives. In … positive jump risk. We exploit an exogenous shock to compensation convexity, arising from a change in the expensing treatment … suggest that managerial equity compensation portfolios do not augment a firm's future idiosyncratic crash risk because they …