'Fat cat' pay / Shaun Tyson -- Shareholders' attitude to directors' pay / Paul Norris -- Accountability, transparency and performance : comparing annual report disclosures on CEO pay across Europe / Sébastien Point -- Director performance standards and rewards in France / Frank Bournois and...

We examine the effect of say on pay regulation in the United Kingdom (UK). Consistent with the view that shareholders regard say on pay as a value-creating mechanism, the regulation's announcement triggered a positive stock price reaction at firms with weak penalties for poor performance. UK...

We simultaneously analyze two mechanisms of the managerial labor market (CEO turnover and remuneration schemes) in two different regulatory regimes, namely before and after the sweeping governance reforms adopted in the UK in the 1990s. We employ sample selection models to examine firms in a...

This study analyzes the problem of high or runaway CEO pay packages. These packages reflect substantial lapses of corporate governance by the corporate boards of directors that award the excessive pay. A combination of shareholder impotence, director self-interest and CEO domination has rendered...

Debate on the issue of executive pay has intensified after the UK Government published a Green Paper in November 2016 (Green Paper), which discussed, among other things, several concerns with the current regime on executive pay and possible options for reform. In view of the potentially...

While compensation consultants are known to play an important role in the design of executive compensation contracts, evidence on the effect of compensation consultants on CEO pay is mixed. Using a sample of 3,198 compensation consultant engagements and 576 executive compensation consulting fee...