Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. The Official View and Its Shortcomings -- 1. The Official Story -- 2. Have Boards Been Bargaining at Arm's Length? -- 3. Shareholders' Limited Power to Intervene -- 4. The Limits of Market Forces -- Part II. Power and Pay -- 5. The...

This paper seeks to make three contributions to understanding how banks' executive pay has produced incentives for excessive risk-taking and how such pay should be reformed. First, although there is now wide recognition that pay packages focused excessively on short-term results, we analyze a...