to moderate risk and boost long-term corporate survival. Results suggest a strong relation between gender-diverse boards … and bondholder-aligned CEO compensation components, particularly when CEOs have greater incentives to take and shift risk …

Influenced by their compensation plans, CEOs make their own luck through decisions that affect future firm risk. After … adopting a relative performance evaluation (RPE) plan, total and idiosyncratic risk are higher, and the correlation between …) plans. Plans including accounting-based performance metrics and/or cash payouts have weaker risk-related incentives. The …

outsourcing, the more they pay to their CEOs. Outsourcing firms promote managerial risk-taking by using proportionally more equity …-based compensation. However, they also need to compensate additionally their CEOs for the higher risk exposure to the firms' increased …

between the CEO and the next layer of senior managers, we find a significantly positive relation between firm risk and …This paper tests the proposition that higher tournament incentives will result in greater risk taking by senior … managers in order to increase their chance of promotion to the rank of CEO. Measuring tournament incentives as the pay gap …

geographically close to an award winner and who are not entrenched. We observe an increase in risk-taking, operating performance and …