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This paper empirically addresses the questions of whether and, if yes, how U.S. bankers are compensated in particular with regard to incentive pay. Although the level of bank CEO pay has dropped during the financial crisis period, bank CEOs fared much better in comparison to their firms (and, in...
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We examine whether U.S. firms' M&A decisions influence the likelihood of voluntary adoption of clawback provisions in executive compensation contracts and whether clawback adoption improves subsequent M&A decisions. Because prior research finds that poor M&A decisions are associated with future...
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According to statistics, CEO-to-worker compensation ratio for large publicly traded firms in the U.S. has surged almost fifteen times since the 1960's. There is also a significant difference between CEO compensation and that of the average earner in the top 0.1 percent category (of around...
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incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … managers and between shareholders and creditors, a research framework is developed to identify the influence of low interest … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility …
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In this study, we examine the three components of executive compensation including salary, equity, and bonus pay over a CEO’s tenure for US publicly-traded firms. We confirm a positive and significant relationship between two separate measures of firm performance and incentive pay. We also...
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