Remuneration

Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in Financial Firms: The Case for Convertible Equity-Based Pay

Are Female Top Managers Really Paid Less?

Are female top managers paid less than their male counterparts? Is the gender gap higher in male-dominated industries? What effect on pay do female non-executive directors and remuneration consultants exert? While we find no pay gap...

Getting Incentives Right: Is Deferred Bank Executive Compensation Sufficient?

In the wake of the global financial crisis, attention has often focused on whether incentives generated by bank executives? compensation programs led to excessive risk-taking. Post-crisis, compensation reform proposals have taken...

Top Management Ties with Board Members: How They Affect Pay-Performance Sensitivity and IPO Performance

This paper is the first study on the effects of pay-performance sensitivity (PPS) on the performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the presence of social ties and family ties of the top managers with board members. We...

Executive Remuneration and the Payout Decision

We analyze the payout channel choice of listed UK firms and examine whether the choice between dividends, share repurchases, a combination of payout channels, or complete earnings retention is affected by investor sentiment,...

Rationalizing the Dodd-Frank Clawback

On July 1, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed an excess-pay clawback rule to implement the provisions of Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act. I explain why the SEC?s proposed Dodd-Frank clawback, while reducing...

Revisiting Executive Pay in Family-Controlled Firms: Family Premium in Large Business Groups

According to the prior literature, family executives of family-controlled firms receive lower compensation than non-family executives. One of the key driving forces behind this is the existence of family members who are not involved...

Executive Remuneration. A Comparative Overview

In this chapter, we analyse current trends in the regulation and practice of executive remuneration. No doubt, the role of regulation in this area is on the rise, particularly after the recent financial crisis, and the standards as to...

Executive Compensation: When a Firm is a Business Group Member

This paper examines how executive pay is set when a firm is a business group member. Using Korea as a laboratory setting, we find that member firm?s cash compensation for its executives is positively linked to the stock performance of...

CRD IV and the Mandatory Structure of Bankers? Pay

In this paper, I analyse the rise of mandatory structure of bankers? pay in Europe as outcome of criticism of pre-crisis remuneration practices at financial institutions. Whether flawed bankers? pay contributed to the financial...

Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer

This article studies traditional and modern theories of executive compensation, bringing them together under a simple unifying framework accessible to the general-interest reader. We analyze assignment models of the level of pay,...

Competition for Managers and Corporate Governance

Separation between CEO and Chairman of the Board is typically viewed as evidence of good corporate governance. Surprisingly, the literature has failed so far to uncover any significant relation between CEO/Chairman duality and firm...