The debate over CEO compensation persists despite extensive efforts by academics and technocrats to understand its … determinants. Most research has focused on how firm-specific characteristics and CEO-specific traits influence CEO compensation … impact of macroeconomic factors on the compensation of CEOs. It examines how price variables such as interest rates …

negative shock to globalization on executive compensation for German companies listed in the DAX and MDAX stock indices. We … compensation in firms operating in sectors that export services was negatively affected, in particular through lower variable … compensation. On the contrary, executives of firms that operate in sectors exporting goods were not negatively affected overall …

impact of tax policy changes on pay without performance. Using data on executive compensation in the United States, I compare … the sensitivity of executive compensation to performance shocks beyond the executives control before and after a change in …, state tax hikes increase the sensitivity of executive compensation to performance shocks exogenous to executive effort …