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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"CEO Compensation"”.
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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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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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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 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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Does CEO Compensation Encourage Risk-Taking? Empirical Evidence from FTSE350.
This thesis investigates the effect of CEOs remuneration components on company risk-taking activities. The primary aim of this study is to provide a better understanding of the link between the Chief Executive Officers' (CEOs) compensation packages and their effects on the company volatility. …
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Bank CEO Compensation, Bank Risks and the Financial Crisis Effect
… the financial crisis was that financial sector CEOs were engaged in excessive risk taking induced by compensation practices. Thus, the primary focus of this paper is to determine whether empirical evidence supports this assertion. As such, I examine bank CEO compensation, bank risks, and the …
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Donor and Grantor Reactions to CEO Compensation in Nonprofit Organizations
… whether nonprofit organizations with high CEO compensation receive less in donor and grantor support compared to nonprofit organizations with lower CEO compensation. I find strong evidence that both donors and grantors give less to organizations that spend a larger percentage of total …
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Corporate Governance, Ceo Compensation and total shareholder returns in South Africa
… and specifically to Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). The purpose of the research is to examine the factors that determine and/or shape the relationship between the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO’s) compensation and the wealth created for shareholders. The investigation further seeks to find the …
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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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Financial Performance, Governance Characteristics and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK and Nigerian Banks
… research work examines the relationship between CEO pay and financial performance in Nigeria and UK banks while recognizing its peculiarities. It further analyzed the relationship between CEO pay and board governance characteristics, and the relationship between CEO share ownership and …
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The relationship between CEO compensation and firm performance: A case study of Namibian State-Owned-Enterprises (SOEs)
… the question whether chief executive officers (CEOs) in Namibian SOEs deserve the high levels of remuneration they receive. The main purpose of the study was to determine whether there is a relationship between CEOs’ remuneration and company performance in Namibia’s SOEs in particular the 18 …
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The Effect of Earnings Quality on Analyst Forecast Accuracy, Dispersion, and Optimism and Implications for CEO Compensation
… users; specifically financial analysts and CEO compensation setters. The first essay investigates the impact of earnings quality on earnings forecast accuracy, forecast dispersion, and forecast optimism of individual financial analysts. The primary model employed for analyst forecast …
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The effects of firm success on foreign direct investment, CEO compensation, and wages : issues on monitoring costs and simultaneity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Board composition and the use of accounting measures: the effect on the relation between CEO compensation and firm performance
… the board on the relationship between executive compensation and firm performance is investigated. The effect of board composition on the types of performance measures, accounting and stock return, used in the pay-performance relationship is also examined. Data were gathered from publicly …
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Corporate Governance and Strategic Behavior: A Study of Acquisitions and CEO Compensation Practices of Publicly-Owned and Family-Controlled Firms in S&P 500
… policies; mergers and acquisitions, as well as CEO compensation practices. In studying acquisitions made by family and nonfamily firms in the S&P 500 index from 1992-2006, I find that family firms are more careful when embarking on actions leading to mergers than non-family firms, as evidenced …
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Impact of Foreign Directors on Firms’ Corporate Governance, Risk and Performance
… directors and their relationship with CEO compensation, firm performance, and crash risk for a sample of UK firms from 2002 to 2015. First, we examine the changes in board composition over the years and find an increase in foreign non-executive directors and in the number of foreign …
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Three Essays on Executive Incentive Pay and Causal Inference in Corporate Finance
<p>Determinants of CEO Compensation and Firm Performance — A Survey</p> <p>Reviewing a large set of literature on CEO compensation and firm performance, I find the following. First, institutional and macro-level factors tend to take the first order importance in determining CEO compensation and …
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Three essays on corporate governance in the hospitality industry
… related to institutional ownership, executive compensation determinants, board size, and merger and acquisition (MandA) outcomes are commonly examined, whereas topics related to family ownership, debt, and regulation/law are seldom explored. This review contributes to the literature by taking …
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