A special feature of UK executive pay is the heavy reliance on performance conditions for executive share options … data on analyst earnings forecasts and realised earnings, this paper computes probabilities of Britain's CEOs meeting their … remcom committees, CEO tenure, CEO base pay and CEO notice periods. While most of the variables have the some sign as …

perspective on the optimal contracting and managerial power models of executive pay in U.S. academic literature. Even if one model …

characteristics is analysed. It is found that firm specific factors accounts for the majority of the variance in total CEO pay, while …, and shareholders features are related with the CEO pay. The policy implications of these results are then derived. …

discussion on managerial pay arrangements and the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act concerning say-on-pay …

addition, we also find that a switch in a firm's compensation consultants influences its CEO pay via two directions. When a … argument that big consultants tend to design more optimal contract to reduce CEO's “excess pay” with their superior expertise … on pay structure and concerns of high reputation cost …

might lead to higher CEO pay. Conflicts of interest include the desires to "cross-sell" service and to secure "repeat … evidence that compensation consultant's conflicts of interest is associated with higher CEO pay. We find that CEO bonus and … service and that pay is higher when the fees paid to consultants for other services are larger ("cross-sell" service). In …