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This paper examines whether the systemic risk of financial institutions is associated with the risk-taking incentives … generated by executive compensation. We measure managerial risk-taking incentives with the sensitivities of chief executive …-taking incentives were associated with significantly higher levels of systemic risk during the peak of the financial crisis in 2008. We …
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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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The paper investigates the role of CEO's equity and risk incentives in boosting securitization in the financial … institutions over the period 2003-2009 we document that CEOs with high equity incentives have systematically engaged in … securitization transactions to a larger extent than CEOs with low incentives. We also show that CEOs with high equity and risk …
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confirmed by our finding that both the proportions of bonus and long-term incentives are positively related to bank valuation …
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We investigate the effect of executives and directors with prior banking crisis experience on bank outcomes around the global financial crisis (GFC). Executives and directors with previous experience leading banks through a bank crisis may have been uniquely able to understand the risks,...
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Over a period that includes the 1998 Russian crisis and 2007-2009 financial crisis, banks with overconfident chief executive officers (CEOs) were more likely to weaken lending standards and increase leverage than other banks in advance of a crisis, making them more vulnerable to the shock of the...
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I test theories of the recent financial crisis by studying how banks' pre-crisis investments connect to their CEOs' beliefs. Using different proxies for beliefs, I find banks with larger housing investments and worse crisis performance had CEOs who were more optimistic ex ante. Banks with the...
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