Using a sample of more than 1,500 US public firms in the period 1998-2016, we examine how firms endogenously adjust CEO compensation contracts when they become financially distressed. The link between compensation and equity-based measures of firm performance is positive and strong prior to...

Pay transparency and the pay dispersion it reveals matter to academics, policymakers, and corporate stakeholders. We study how the increased pay transparency brought about by the United States’ CEO pay ratio disclosure rule affected employee pay satisfaction. Economic models of pay...