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CEO Compensation in Japan : Why So Different From the U.S.?
Pan, Luyao - 2018
In March 2010, Japanese regulators implemented the country's first legislation concerning the disclosure of director compensation for named individuals. Using the first publicly available data for Japanese executives, we document direct evidence on the level, structure, and mechanisms of CEO...
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Global collaborative patents
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters
Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - 2022
We document political sentiment effects on inventors in the US. Democrat patenters are more likely to patent (relative … to Republicans) after the election of Barack Obama but less likely to patent following the election of Donald Trump …
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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters
Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337851
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Executive compensation : a survey of theory and evidence
Edmans, Alex; Gabaix, Xavier; Jenter, Dirk - 2017
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on executive compensation. We start by presenting data on the level of CEO and other top executive pay over time and across firms, the changing composition of pay; and the strength of executive incentives. We compare pay in U.S. public...
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Industry Tournament Incentives and Corporate Innovation Strategies
Kong, Lingfei - 2020
development. We discover that ITIs strengthen routine product development activities but decrease patent-based innovation. Further …This paper examines how the tournament-like progression in the CEO labor market influences corporate innovation … strategies. By exploiting a text-based proxy for product innovation based on product descriptions from 10-Ks, we find a …
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Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from U.K. Companies
Gerakos, Joseph - 2013
This paper examines how different types of interactions with U.S. markets by non-U.S. firms are associated with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of U.K. firms and using both broad...
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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 multi- year compensation plans, which generate...
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CEO Compensation and Credit Default Swaps : Evidence from the U.S. And Germany
Chiu, Hsin-Hui - 2017
Executive compensation is designed to create incentives for CEOs to act in the best interest of shareholders. Short-term (bonus) and equity-based incentives induce risk taking behaviors of the CEO that could further change a firm's risk exposure. This article examines the linkage between...
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Factors Influencing CEO Compensation in US Telecommunication Industry
Garanina, Tatiana - 2019
The objective of this paper is to define the relationship between a set of factors and CEO compensation that will enable companies to imply better corporate governance practices in their management process. Developed econometric model is tested on the data of US telecom companies for the period...
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