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market participants use to isolate managers' idiosyncratic performance-chosen by boards to evaluate managers. Among firms …
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senior managers. However, the institutional factors associated with high levels of compensation of public managers are hardly … known. In particular, studies about the possible relation between factors of governance and compensation of public managers … insights for general reforms of governance aimed to support equitably levels of compensation of public managers and efficiency …
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This paper examines the consequences of the increased use of performance vesting provisions in long-term incentive compensation for CEOs and other executives in the post-2006 period following FAS 123R. We re-examine the agency prediction that incentives provided by accounting or other...
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Clawbacks are contractual provisions in executive compensation contracts that allow for an ex post recoupment of variable pay if certain triggering conditions are met. As a result of regulatory responses to financial crises and corporate scandals as well as of growing shareholder pressure to...
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. The results favor the team perspective under which unilateral shirking is assumed infeasible for managers. The analysis …-based measures of agency costs. The risk premium can explain up to 37% of total compensation for higher-paid managers in large firms …. This upper bound is higher than that of lower-paid managers and all managers in small firms. Shareholders could experience …
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. The results favor the team perspective under which unilateral shirking is assumed infeasible for managers. The analysis …-based measures of agency costs. The risk premium can explain up to 37% of total compensation for higher-paid managers in large firms …. This upper bound is higher than that of lower-paid managers and all managers in small firms. Shareholders could experience …
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We present a modified principal-agent model to identify a link between the anticipated likelihood of future CEO turnover and the optimal sensitivity of incentive pay to firm performance. The analysis focuses on the optimal sequence of standard one-period incentive contracts when CEO effort...
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Skilled labour has gained significance as a production factor in the age of information technology, but accounting does not recognize human capital as an asset that contributes to the firm's earning power. This paper suggests a method to develop a latent index to proxy the managerial-skill...
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This paper studies the role of match quality for contractual arrangements, wage dynamics and workers' retention. We develop a model in which profit maximizing firms offer a performance-based pay arrangement to retain workers with relatively high match-specific productivity. The key implications...
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We study whether accounting information quality (AIQ) is priced in the executive labor market. Focusing on externally hired CEO compensation at their initial appointment, we find a 7.38% pay premium for a one-standard deviation decline in AIQ measured in the years preceding the appointment. This...
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