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The market for CEOs
Cziraki, Peter; Jenter, Dirk - 2021
We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs' prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...
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The Value of Luck in the Labor Market for CEOs
Amore, Mario Daniele - 2020
It is well-known that luck increases the compensation of CEOs at their current firm. In this paper, we explore how luck affects CEOs' outside options in the labor market, and the performance of firms that hire lucky CEOs. Our results show that luck at their current firm makes CEOs move to a new...
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Regulatory compensation limits and business performance : evidence from the National Football League
Petutschnig, Matthias - 2017
Executives' compensation has been on the forefront of the public and political debate since the recent financial crisis. One of the measures publicly discussed is a general upper boundary to top management compensation packages (“salary cap”, “maximum wage”). While such measures are...
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Management compensation and the economic crisis : longitudinal evidence from the German chemical sector
Grund, Christian; Hofmann, Tanja - 2013
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. …
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Executive compensation, firm performance, and chaebols in Korea : evidence from new panel data
Kato, Takao (contributor); Kim, U-chʾan (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...
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Competitive Target Pay Practices for CEO Compensation
Ferrari, Mascia; Reggiani, Francesco; Rajgopal, Shivaram; … - 2023
The competitive target pay policy sets a target dollar number for total CEO compensation within a specified range of the amounts paid to a CEO’s peers chosen from similar sized firms in the same industry. If such a policy were widely adopted by compensation committees, we would observe a...
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CEO Pay Gap and Bank Risk-taking
DeYoung, Robert - 2019
The large compensation received by bank executives is among the many factors blamed for the risk-taking that led to the 2008-2009 financial crisis. We test whether and how pay disparities between CEO and non-CEO executives—the so-called CEO pay gap—influenced risk taking at publicly traded...
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Financial Crisis, Excessive Pay And Fat Cats : Why Employment Scholars Should Start Reflecting on Regulation of Executive Remuneration
Gaudio, Giovanni - 2020
In the aftermath of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, flawed variable pay structures of executives were blamed by many for contributing to the build-up of the global financial turmoil, as they allegedly incentivized them to engage in excessive risk-taking. Legislators around the globe decided to...
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Executive Compensation and Regulation Imposed Governance : Evidence from the California Nonprofit Integrity Act (2004)
Dhole, Sandip - 2015
This study examines the impact of the California Nonprofit Integrity Act (2004) on CEO compensation costs in affected organizations. Contrary to the stated objective of the Act that executive compensation be “just and reasonable,” we find that CEO compensation costs for affected nonprofits...
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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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