In this paper, I examine determinants and trends in top executive compensation in Israeli publicly traded firms between the years 1995–2018. I find a large increase in executive compensation in the earlier period of the sample culminating in 2007, especially in financial firms. Between 2008...

A common practice in credit insurance is the use of acceptance rate — the amount of insurance provided relative to the amount of insurance requested — as the main parameter set by insurers which reflects the pricing of the risks in each transaction. This research aims to determine what the...

The relationship between executive compensation and firm performance is strongly endogenous. In this paper, I use a unique law that sets a binding upper limit on financial firms' executive compensation in Israel as an exogenous shock and study the effect of capping total executive compensation...