Compensation consultants and the level, composition, and complexity of CEO pay

Kevin J. Murphy, Tatiana Sandino

We provide fresh evidence regarding the relation between compensation consultants and CEO pay. First, firms that employ consultants have higher-paid CEOs—this result is robust to firm fixed-effects and matching on economic and governance variables. Second, while this relation is partly due to consultant conflicts of interest, it is largely explained by the impact consultants have on the composition and complexity of CEO pay plans; notably, this impact fully mediates the consultant-CEO pay relation. Third, firms with higher-paid CEOs and more complex pay plans are more likely to hire a consultant. Lastly, say-on-pay voting patterns suggest shareholders view positively the advice consultants provide but only when consultants do not provide other services. We also find suggestive evidence of boards “layering” new equity incentive plans over existing ones, thereby increasing the impact of composition and complexity on CEO pay beyond the premium the CEO would demand for bearing additional compensation risk

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Year of publication:	[2017]
Authors:	Murphy, Kevin James ; Sandino, Tatiana
Publisher:	[Boston, MA] : Harvard Business School
Subject:	Executive Compensation \| Complexity \| Motivation and Incentives \| Führungskräfte \| Managers \| Managervergütung \| Executive compensation \| Vergütungssystem \| Compensation system \| Leistungsanreiz \| Performance incentive \| Unternehmensberatung \| Consultancy services \| Leistungsentgelt \| Performance pay \| Corporate Governance \| Corporate governance \| Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie \| Agency theory

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 44 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Working papers / Harvard Business School, Division of Research. - Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School, ISSN 0898-7629, ZDB-ID 2276801-4. - Vol. 18, 027 Accepted and forthcoming at The Accounting Review
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.3041427 [DOI]
Classification:	J33 - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods ; M12 - Personnel Management ; M52 - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects (stock options, fringe benefits, incentives, family support programs) ; M48 - Government Policy and Regulation
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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