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Showing 1 to 20 of 415 for “"CEO"”.
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Maintaining optimal CEO incentives through equity grants and CEO portfolio rebalancing
… hypotheses that firms set optimal levels for CEO incentives, and that firms and CEOs jointly correct deviations from these optimal levels through equity grants and CEO portfolio rebalancing. I investigate two equity-based CEO incentives, pay-for-performance sensitivity and risk-taking …
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Stakeholder management reputation and its effects on CEO dismissal and CEO compensation
… of the reputation for stakeholder management on CEO dismissal. I propose that a reputation for ""avoid harm"" stakeholder management is more beneficial to alleviate the negative effects of poor financial performance on CEO dismissal. The second study examines the effect of the organization’s …
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Bank Certification Effect on CEO Compensation
… et al., 2006). We find that unlike shareholders, CEOs gain from the bank loan relation over the long-term. Specifically, we find that bank loan agreement elicits a significant increase in total compensation through an increase in non-performance based compensation components such as salary, bonus …
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CEO succession processes and agency costs
… the baton' succession process, the incumbent CEO/Chairman relinquishes the CEO title, but retains the Chairman title to facilitate monitoring the new CEO during a probationary period. The new CEO eventually wins the Chairman title if he is successful during the probationary period. We argue …
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CEO Extraversion and Management Earnings Forecasts
This study investigates the effects of CEO extraversion, the single most salient personality trait (Cain 2012), on management earnings forecasts. An extraverted individual is characterized as being energetic, talkative, assertive, decisive and sociable (Wilt and Revelle 2009). I examine whether and …
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CEO Severance Agreements and Tax Avoidance
This study investigates the association between CEO severance agreements and corporate tax avoidance. Severance agreements, by providing executives with additional compensation when there is a change in employment status, should serve to encourage additional risk-taking, as reflected by increased …
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Essays On CEO Turnover, Succession, And Compensation
This dissertation is a series of study on CEO turnover, succession, and compensation, which consists of three essays. In essay 1, I investigate how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) affects CEO tenure and the characteristics of CEO turnover. I do not find a significant relation between financial …
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Essays on CEO compensation and corporate governance
This thesis examines the determinants of CEO compensation. It consists of two main studies. The first investigates the effect of compensation consultants on CEO pay levels and incentives, using a sample of large UK firms from the FTSE 350 index from 2003 to 2011. Its key focus is whether the effect …
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Managerial Risk-Taking and CEO Excess Compensation
This paper examines risk taking and CEO excess compensation problems in U.S firms to determine their impact on shareholders wealth. Literature suggests a positive effect of CEO incentive risk and strong corporate governance on CEO risk taking. Furthermore, the strong governance mitigates excess …
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Does CEO Duality Matter: An Integrative Approach
Some firms allow their CEO to hold the position of Chair of the Board of Directors while other firms choose to split those two positions between two different individuals. This dissertation first examines whether agency control mechanisms, agency problems, and other firm characteristics are related …
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Preparation and characterisation of double doped-CeO₂ systems
Potential Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) electrolyte materials of the composition Ce₀.₈Gd₀.₂₋ₓMₓO₂₋δ (M = Pr or Sm, x = 0.005 - 0.05) were prepared by two wet-chemical methods: oxalic acid co-precipitation and a variant of the Pechini method. X-ray diffraction of the oxide powders indicates that they …
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Determinants of CEO compensation in the hospitality industry
This study empirically investigated whether CEO pay is linked to company performance within the hospitality industry, and attempted to further identify determinants of executive compensation among selected variables used in this study for the hotel, casino, and restaurant sectors. Thus, the present …
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CEO Equity-Based Incentives And Managerial Opportunism Behavior
I investigate the relation between CEO equity compensation and employee layoffs. In particular, this study seeks to examine CEO stock-based incentives and managerial opportunism behavior for the sample of CEOs of firms announcing layoffs during 1997-2006. I investigate two issues. First, I measure …
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Three Essays on Corporate Governance and CEO Dismissal
… the key issues in corporate governance, CEO incentives, and firm value. The first study examines the impact of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) policy changes on share pledging, focusing on financially constrained (FC) firms. It finds that the 2012 prohibition on share pledging …
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CEO compensation and managerial decisions: evidence from acquisitions
… of literature examining the relation between CEO compensation and firm performance, few studies have directly tested the proposition that a strong pay-performance link: leads to improved future performance. This paper tests the hypothesis that a strong pay-performance link: leads to better …
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CEO and CSR: business leaders and corporate social responsibility.
The increasing commercial and social pressure for business leaders to act in a socially responsible manner is undermined by the lack of standards in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) legislation, auditing, indexing, and reporting. Moreover, CSR research is fragmentary and often missing …
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