Search Results - subject_exact:"Executive pay"

Examining pay-performance links : the role of capital owning and self-interest among board members in the high-tech industry

Mousa, Fariss-Terry; Simha, Aditya; Chowdhury, Jaideep; … - 2025

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The effect of a bonus cap on compensation structure in the banking sector

Rutten, Albert; Witteman, Joost - 2026

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Common ownership and strategic manager compensation in R&D races and contests

Stadler, Manfred; Stickel, Lukas - 2026

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Executives' poverty experience and internal and external pay disparities : evidence from China

Huang, Jin; Li, Dongling; Guo, Fei - 2026

We show that executives' early-life poverty experiences reduce both internal (executive-employee) and external (executive-peer) corporate pay disparities. Three mechanisms drive this effect: increased risk aversion in poverty-exposed executives, strategic avoidance of negative media coverage to...

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Carbon taxes and ESG compensation

Niemann, Rainer; Rohlfing-Bastian, Anna - 2026

This paper analyzes how ESG-linked executive compensation interacts with carbon taxation in a multitask principal-agent framework. A risk-neutral principal with financial and environmental preferences incentivizes a risk-averse manager to exert productive and abatement effort while facing an...

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Carbon taxes and ESG compensation

Niemann, Rainer; Rohlfing-Bastian, Anna - 2026

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Carbon taxes and ESG compensation

Niemann, Rainer; Rohlfing-Bastian, Anna - 2026

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Impact of macro-economic factors on CEO compensation : evidence from JSE-listed banks

Marozva, Rudo Rachel; Maloa, Frans - 2026

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. However, the results have been contradictory,...

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CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–2022

Pepper, Alexander - 2026

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Common ownership and CEO social ties across portfolio firms

Hutschenreiter, Dennis; Liu, Qianshuo - 2026

This paper examines whether common institutional ownership is associated with CEO connectedness across firms. We document that higher common ownership between two same-industry firms predicts a greater likelihood that a newly appointed CEO has preexisting social ties to the incumbent CEO of the...

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Mind the (gender pay) gap : the role of board gender composition

Galanakis, Yannis; Gosling, Amanda - 2026

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Moral hazard and competitive paradoxes

Etro, Federico - 2026

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Sustainability-linked debt and ESG executive compensation

Adachi-Sato, Meg; Osano, Hiroshi - 2026

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Unintended consequences of executive compensation restriction

Rozen, Meital Graham - 2026

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Board incentives and executive compensation : evidence from Taiwan’s electronic industry

Sun, Shu-Ching; Liao, Shu-Yi - 2026

This study examines the association between board-level incentive structures and executive compensation, focusing on director compensation as a key element of the corporate governance environment. Using panel data from publicly listed electronic firms in Taiwan from 2012 to 2024, we investigate...

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Executive pay, committee diversity and financial performance of JSE-listed companies

Matemane, Reon; Obagbuwa, Oloyede; Gyekye, Kwabena Agyarko - 2026

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Linking executive pay to ESG criteria : an analysis of current practice in German listed firms

Spallek, Franziska; Bastini, Karola - 2026

This study examines how executive compensation systems can incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives to support sustainable corporate behavior. It develops a conceptual framework that specifies key principles and design characteristics of ESG-linked incentives and...

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Does stakeholder outrage determine executive pay?

Balogh, Attila; Wright, Danika; Zein, Jason - 2026

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Does Stakeholder Outrage Determine Executive Pay?

Balogh, Attila; Wright, Danika J.; Zein, Jason - 2022

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CEO narcissism and stock market reactions : an empirical analysis

Lehmann, Paul - 2026

This bachelor thesis examines how stock markets react to CEO turnover events involving narcissistic leaders. CEO signature size is utilized as an unobtrusive, archival proxy for narcissism, and data from 341 NASDAQ-listed firms over the period 2004–2024 is analyzed. An event study methodology...

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A de facto referendum: how proxy advisors set their standards through director elections

Cai, Hong; Shi, Xucheng; Wu, Han - 2026

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Shocking a CEO : economic disintegration and executive compensation in manufacturing and services firms

Görg, Holger; Merchán, Federico - 2026

This paper uses the Brexit referendum in 2016 as a quasi-natural experiment to estimate the effect of an exogenous negative shock to globalization on executive compensation for German companies listed in the DAX and MDAX stock indices. We show that it matters whether they work for firms...

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Executive Compensation : Investor Preferences During Say-on-Pay Votes and the Role of Proxy Voting Advisors

Gomtsian, Suren - 2023

Shareholder say-on-pay votes allow institutional investors to influence the incentives of managers and, consequently, corporate behaviour. Surprisingly, the preferences of investors on executive compensation have been largely overlooked in the ongoing debates on sustainable corporate behaviour....

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Seven Gaping Holes in Our Knowledge of Corporate Governance

Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2023

In Closer Look, we highlight significant “holes” in our knowledge of corporate governance. These are central issues where insufficient or inadequate study has left us unable to answer basic questions, and where key assumptions relied upon by experts have not been verified or validated. While...

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Do "say-on-pay" votes affect M&A decisions?

Dutta, Shantanu; Officer, Micah S.; Wang, Ruixiang; … - 2025

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Clawback adoptions and institutional investment decisions

Cheung, Samuel; Fung, Simon Yu Kit; Raman, Krishnamurthy K. - 2025

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Is U.S. CEO equity and cash compensation aligned with agency theory to maximize shareholder returns?

Pandher, Gurupdesh S.; Koslowsky, David; Bonaparte, Yosef - 2025

Recent international studies on CEO pay in Europe, Japan, and South Korea reveal significant differences from the U.S. in the use and effectiveness of equity-based CEO compensation, raising questions about the ability of conventional contracts based on agency theory to align with actual CEO...

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Taxes and pay without performance : evidence from executives

Arnemann, Laura - 2025

This paper contributes to the ongoing discourse on the taxation of top-income earners by empirically investigating the 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...

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The effect of taxes on CEO performance

Arnemann, Laura; Buhlmann, Florian; Ruf, Martin; Voget, … - 2025

In this paper, we investigate the effect of higher personal income taxes on CEO and firm performance in publicly traded US firms. In response to higher taxes on compensation, CEOs are less likely to reach performance goals and spend more time working in boards outside of their firm. At the same...

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CEO inside debt and insider trading

Brisker, Eric R.; Outlaw, Dominique; Smith, Aimee Hoffmann - 2025

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CEO Inside Debt and Insider Trading

Brisker, Eric R. - 2018

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Returnee CEO and audit fees

Tawiah, Vincent; Borgi, Hela; Usman, Muhammad; … - 2025

We examine the relationship between returnee chief executive officers (CEOs) and audit fees in China using robust econometric modeling with 25,630 firm-year observations between 2008 and 2020. A returnee CEO is a Chinese CEO who has previously worked or studied outside mainland China. Consistent...

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Differentiated governance of executive compensation in Chinese state-owned enterprises

Liu, Yuanyuan; Zheng, Guojian; Cai, Guilong - 2025

In the context of differentiated governance and the deepening market-oriented reform of compensation in China, we divide state-owned enterprises (SOEs) into four categories according to their equity structure, namely absolute holding firms, relative holding firms, major impact firms and equity...

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CEO as board chair in listed family firms : a test of the performance effects during an economic crisis

Cambrea, Domenico Rocco; Ponomareva, Yuliya; Quarato, Fabio - 2025

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Government CEO pay regulation and corporate innovation performance : the role of CEO's career horizon and shareholding

Maqsood, Umer Sahil; Li, Qian; Wang, Shihao; Zahid, R. … - 2025

This study investigates the effect of government pay policy for chief executive officer's (CEO's) compensation on corporate innovation (CI). Furthermore, it explores the role of the CEO's career horizon and shareholding in this nexus. Utilizing the difference-in-differences method to analyze...

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Deferred compensation, managerial retirement, and the stewardship perspective of financial accounting

Schäfer, Ulrich; Pelger, Christoph - 2025

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Diversified firms and corporate labor policy : the role of managerial equity incentives

Akter, Aysha; Khalifa, Mariem; Sualihu, Mohammed Aminu - 2025

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The dark side of digital transformation : digital washing and accounting conservatism

Wei, Cui; Zhou, Hang; Zhang, Xinrui; Ouyang, Shuang - 2025

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Does CEO inside debt enhance firms' access to trade credit?

Jiang, Yucen; Shruti, R.; Gupta, Jairaj - 2025

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Driving ESG performance : CEO succession impact in European listed firms

Cambrea, Domenico Rocco; Quarato, Fabio; D'Allura, … - 2025

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On the right side of the faultline : effects of subgroups and CEO inclusion on CEO compensation

Antoons, Charlotte; Vandebeek, Alana - 2025

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Shocking a CEO : economic disintegration and executive compensation in manufacturing and services firm

Merchán, Federico; Görg, Holger - 2025

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The effect of addback statutes on CEO compensation

Hrazdil, Karel; Lobo, Gerald J.; Zhang, Ray; Zhang, Weiji - 2025

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Government awards to CEOs

Belot, François; Waxin, Timothée - 2025

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Top management team incentive dispersion and management earnings forecasts

Kalelkar, Rachana; Shi, Yuan; Xu, Hongkang - 2025

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Navigating competitor networks : the influence of geographic density on corporate governance

Lin, Jiaju; Leung, Henry; Westerholm, Joakim - 2025

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Relative performance evaluation and executive compensation : adding fuel to the fire

Bönte, Werner; Galkin, Dmitrii - 2025

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Relative Performance Evaluation and Executive Compensation : Adding Fuel to the Fire

Bönte, Werner; Galkin, Dmitrii - 2023

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Insider CEOs and corporate misconduct : evidence from China

Zhang, Ying; Rusman bin Ghani; Danilah Salleh - 2025

Inspired by the limited research regarding the influence of CEO succession origin on corporate misconduct, this study draws on organizational identification theory and agency theory to examine this issue. Empirical analysis indicates that insider CEOs significantly constrain corporate misconduct...

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Influential information supply or just a modern pillory? : investor perceptions of the CEO pay ratio disclosure rule

Delic, Anamarija; Schäfer, Peter - 2025

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CEO bargaining power and compensation

Kim, Edward - 2025

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CEO Bargaining Power and Compensation

Kim, Edward - 2022

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Regulating CEO compensation : a remedy for corporate misconducts in China's state-owned enterprises

Maqsood, Umer Sahil; Li, Qian; Hussain, Hadi; Hussain, … - 2025

The growing compensation disparity between CEOs and employees has become a global concern, underscoring the need for regulatory measures to ensure fair and equitable remuneration practices. Drawing insights from China's government regulation of CEO compensation (GRCC) for state-owned enterprises...

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