Whilst researchers extensively investigate executive incentives, very little appears in the literature on the effect of outside-director ‘skin in the game' on board monitoring and thus firm performance. Utilizing a unique panel dataset, we observe a sizeable positive relationship between...

The traditional view on CEO pay suggests that the use of equity-based incentives (e.g., stocks and options) should increase when stock prices become more informative about managerial action. In this paper, we show this is only true in the relative sense, when comparing with CEOs'...

We exposit an integrated agency model of multi-period career concerns and labor market equilibrium with managerial reservation utility levels, and thus pay levels, determined endogenously for firms of different sizes. Based on observations from a long time-series of S&P 1500 companies, we...

We exposit an integrated agency model of multi-period career concerns and labor market equilibrium with managerial reservation utility levels, and thus pay levels, determined endogenously for firms of different sizes. Stochastic managerial talent takes two forms: a manager drawn from a tighter...