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 …

increased wage comparisons within firms with geographically-dispersed managers — firms with the greatest information frictions … prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within … firms with dispersed managers, division manager pay co-moves more with peer pay and is less sensitive to individual …

extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards … perspective. We also examine that certain parts of managers seem to have more power to influence their compensation than others …. Inequality in managers' compensation decreased during the crisis. …

bankruptcy. Overall, our findings are consistent with agency theory predicting that reduced incentives require contract … realignment of managers with relevant stakeholders of distressed firms …