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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Total compensation"”.
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Fast offset compensation for a 10Gbps limit amplifier
A novel offset voltage compensation method is presented that significantly modifies the existing tradeoff between control loop bandwidth, and therefore total compensation time, and total output jitter. The proposed system achieves comparable output jitter performance to traditional approaches while …
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THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL REVENUE CODE SECTION 162(M) ON PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: A REEXAMINATION
… paid to each of its top five executives, on CEO compensation level, CEO compensation structure and pay for performance sensitivity. I find that the average level of CEO salary decreased after the implementation of Section 162(m) and that firms that paid their CEOs salary no less than $1 million …
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Compensation in agribusiness: the case of the retail fertilizer industry
Identifying the determinants of compensation is important from employee and firm financial perspectives. This analysis examines the compensation of three different skill level categories - managerial, specialized, and general. The types of compensation examined include salaries, bonuses, benefits, …
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The Effects of Executive Compensation and Auditor Industry Specialization on Financial Reporting Executives\' Decision-Making during a Potential Restatement That Will Lead to a "Clawback"
… a clawback is utilized to recover incentive compensation that was previously paid out to a manager based on the misstatement. My study investigates financial reporting executives' (FREs) decision-making after the external auditors have proposed a restatement that will lead to a clawback. I …
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An Examination of Seasoned Equity Offer Placement Effort
… hypothesis that an important part of underwriter compensation is partial payment for anticipated market making activities in the secondary market, once the offer begins. I show that lead underwriter market making activities following an SEO are partly paid through the spread. The lower bound cost …
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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION RESTRICTIONS AND SHAREHOLDER WEALTH MAXIMIZATION DURING THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM U.S. BAILED-OUT COMPANIES
… the board of directors, setting value-maximizing compensation packages, employing leverage, and using other internal policies. Extensive discussion on corporate governance and regulations has motivated financial experts to conduct research on governance mechanisms and their relations to firm …
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Differences in Turnover Intentions Between Exempt and Nonexempt Employees
… that overall satisfaction, vision and mission, total compensation, job fulfillment, leadership, and culture were significant determinants of turnover intentions. For the nonexempt exploratory model, overall satisfaction, tenure, job fulfillment, and culture were significant determinants of …
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Merit pay: the Federal Government's pay-for-performance experience.
… have examined uses in the areas of pay and total compensation, and even in the narrower area of performance-based pay, these studies have focused primarily on the private sector. This is not surprising since 'merit pay' has only been in widespread use in the Federal sector for the past two …
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Private Equity Executive Compensation
Abstract I compare compensation arrangements of firms with private equity and public debt and firms with arrangements public equity and public debt. In a sample of 77 firms, I find that privately held firms offer less bonus compensation in levels, but more as a percentage of total income, less …
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The Effects of Infrastructure Development and Taxation on Current and Future Earnings
… fringe benefits, induces a reallocation of the total compensation package toward fringe benefits. In the final essay, which uses the same policy as that of first I am interested behind the economic motives of manipulation by the local community to obtain public good road in their locality.</p>
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Bank Certification Effect on CEO Compensation
… loan agreement elicits a significant increase in total compensation through an increase in non-performance based compensation components such as salary, bonus and other compensation. We also notice a smaller proportion of pay-at-risk. Additional results indicate that bank loan agreement …
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The impact of equity-based remuneration on corporate risk strategy in the Australian mining sector
… examines whether CEO and director equity-based compensation influenced the risk strategy of listed Australian mining sector companies during 2004 to 2013, and whether risk strategy influenced shareholder value creation. The study had three broad objectives. The first was to identify the changes …
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The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity
… power to insiders' associates positively with total compensation and pay-for-performance sensitivity in partial support of my hypothesis. Although contrary to my expectations, I find the ratios of the average outsiders' ownership and structural power bases to insiders' are insignificantly …
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U.S. airline industry operating cost measures from 2000-2016
… analysis on unit labor costs. We find pilot total compensation has risen for all three carrier types and is almost entirely responsible for the increase in labor costs among the U.S. airlines in our sample. Since 2012, Alaska and Spirit Airlines have been the only airlines that have not seen …
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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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Profit sharing in a manufacturing plant in a developing country : communication and organisational dynamics
… sharing creates a fundamental change in employee compensation by making a portion of total compensation directly dependent upon the total profits of the firm and the performance of the employee. The major goal of this study is to test for and measure the impact of the independent variable, a …
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Taxation and Financial Decision Making
… contexts: international acquisitions, executive compensation, and dividend payout. In Chapter 1, I investigate the possibility that tax rather than productivity differences are driving international acquisition decisions. A theoretical model of this process yields two testable implications of …
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Does CEO Compensation Encourage Risk-Taking? Empirical Evidence from FTSE350.
… between the Chief Executive Officers' (CEOs) compensation packages and their effects on the company volatility. Hence, this study enhances the understanding within the CEO pay-risk field and form a foundation for a more effective monetary system. We employed panel data from 2012-2017 of the …
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Three essays on corporate acquisitions, bidders' liquidity, and monitoring
… and industry-adjusted increases in cash and total compensation after the acquisitions. The pay-for-performance sensitivity of executive compensation decrease significantly for the liquidity-improved bidders. These results support the proposition that an improvement in liquidity results in a …
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Two Essays on Capital Structure Decisions of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Managerial Entrenchment and Ethical Corporate Citizenship
… same 3 digits SIC code, and within 10 percent of total assets. CEO power is primarily measured using CEO pay slice calculated as CEO total compensation as a percentage of top 5 executives of the firm. Powerful CEOs have pay slice above the 50th percentile, and weak CEOs pay slice is below the 50th …
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