Kato & Long (2005) state that executive compensation has attracted much attention from economists in the past two decades yet most academic work on executive compensation has been concentrated on a few developed countries such as the U.S. and the U.K., mainly due to data availability. In light...

We document a significantly positive relationship between executive compensation and risk-taking of Chinese listed banks over the 2007–2018 period. The finding is robust to the risk measures (Z-score, systematic risk and stock return volatility) used, the way to calculate executive...

This study investigates the impact of professor-directors on the executive-employee pay gap in public Chinese firms. University professors are generally believed to have higher standards of ethical and social responsibility by the public. Consistent with this view, we find there is a negative...