set ex ante explicit severance pay agreements as one component in managing the optimal level of equity incentives. Younger … post payouts to managers are largely determined by the ex ante contract terms …

2008 financial crisis. Strong and weak banks also stand apart: managers from weak banks took more risk than their peers in …

-merger performance. These results hold controlling for CEO overconfidence and cannot be attributed to firms altering incentives to induce …

We provide evidence that CEO equity incentives, especially stock options, influence stock liquidity risk via …

, while RPE cash awards do not. These incentives can be significant in comparison to those conveyed by APE grants with similar …

I estimate a dynamic agency model to quantify the importance of dismissals in CEO incentives -vis-à-vis pecuniary …

all cases, explicit, non-discretionary ESG incentives are economically insignificant relative to executives’ incentives to … companies, explicit, non-discretionary ESG incentives were incorporated only in annual bonus plans. One sample company – Duke …. While this approach could be seen as a roadmap for those seeking meaningful ESG-based pay incentives, this Article concludes …