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The bonus-driven "rainmaker" financial firm : how these firms enrich top employees, destroy shareholder value and create system financial instability
Crotty, James R. - 2009
“rainmakers”) to take the excessive risk and employ the excessive leverage in the bubble that created the preconditions for the … properties that induce reckless risk-taking. Since boom-period bonuses do not have to be returned if rainmaker decisions …
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Option implied information for quantitative asset management
Ordu, Umut - 2012
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Too much pay-performance sensitivity?
Brick, Ivan Elliot; Palmon, Oded; Wald, John K. - In: The review of economics and statistics 94 (2012) 1, pp. 287-303
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Financial crisis, corporate governance, and bank capital
Bhagat, Sanjai - 2017
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Financial crisis, corporate governance, and bank capital
Bhagat, Sanjai - 2017
In the aftermath of the 20078 crisis, senior policymakers and the media have blamed excessive risk-taking undertaken by …
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Public opinion and executive compensation
Kuhnen, Camelia M. (contributor);  … - 2010 - This version: May 2010
We inquire whether public opinion influences executive compensation. During 1992-2008 the negativity of press coverage of CEO pay varied significantly, with stock options being the most discussed pay component. We find that after more negative press coverage of CEO pay firms reduce option grants...
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The Impact of Financial Distress on CEO Compensation in the United States
Verhasselt, Gertjan - 2017
This M.A. dissertation presents a study of the influence of financial distress on CEO compensation in the United States. It focuses on the four main components of executive compensation: salary, bonus, restricted stock and stock options. More specifically, I apply linear regression to panel data...
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How Do Quasi-Random Option Grants Affect CEO Risk-Taking?
Shue, Kelly - 2017
We examine how an increase in stock option grants affects CEO risk-taking. The overall net effect of option grants is … theoretically ambiguous for risk-averse CEOs. To overcome the endogeneity of option grants, we exploit institutional features of … increase in new options granted leads to a 2.8-4.2 percent increase in equity volatility. This increase in risk is driven …
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CEO Compensation and Risk-Taking at Financial Firms : Evidence from U.S. Federal Loan Assistance
Gande, Amar - 2017
We examine whether risk-taking among the largest financial firms in the U.S. is related to CEO equity incentives before … amount of emergency loans and total days the loans are outstanding are increasing in pre-crisis CEO risk-taking incentives … compensation contracts were positively associated with risk-taking in financial firms which resulted in potential solvency problems …
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Shareholders Have a Say in Executive Compensation : Evidence from Say-on-Pay in the United States
Kimbro, Marinilka Barros - 2015
literature in three ways. First, we find evidence that SOP votes are sensitive to firm risk, excessive CEO compensation …
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