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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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Executive Compensation--Tax Effects
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Three Essays On Executive Compensation
Executive compensation and its potential importance in aligning shareholder and management interests has been an extensively researched area within corporate finance. We study executive compensation while addressing several unresolved issues in the literature. In essay one, we examine CEO …
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Executive compensation : a new look.
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Two Essays on Executive Compensation
… (Chapter 2) examines whether shareholders use executive compensation channel to align managerial horizon with their investment horizon. We utilize a newly emerged empirical measure, pay duration, to measure managerial horizon. For shareholder horizon, we use the fraction of long-term …
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THREE STUDIES ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION CLAWBACK PROVISIONS
… dissertation contains three studies relating to executive compensation clawback policies. In the first study (Chapter 3), I investigate the relation between voluntary clawback adoption and shareholder satisfaction. I find that various measures of shareholder dissatisfaction are associated with an …
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Essays on corporate governance and executive compensation
… and CEO power, and the link between deferred compensation (inside debt) and financial performance/firm behavior. In the first chapter, I consider agency theory’s prediction that a large shareholder, ”blockholder,” can serve as an effective governance mechanism when monitoring man- agers by …
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Essays on Executive Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment.
… turnover. Most explanations for increased CEO compensation focus on market power - the increased competition in the external CEO market, or entrenchment - rent extraction by CEOs from captured boards. We attempt to provide an alternate explanation for the recent growth in CEO pay. We estimate …
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Effect of executive compensation on firm performance
… to the higher risk-taking. While CEO incentive compensation has been perceived mixed on its effectiveness, this study provides support to the equity-based CEO compensation in reducing agency conflicts between CEOs and shareholders.
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Impacts of Executive Compensation on Employee Wages
We study the impact of CEO equity-based compensation (EBC) on employee wages. Using pay-performance sensitivity (PPS) as a measure for CEO equity-based compensation, we find that CEOs with higher EBC tend to pay their employees lower wages. We also examine the impact of EBC on average employee wage …
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Essays on executive compensation and dividend policy
… of sovereign wealth fund (SWF) ownership on firm executive compensation and the second examines the impact that various dividend payout policies have on stock prices. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. CHAPTER 1: Sovereign wealth funds are major players in the global markets. We …
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Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection of Executive Compensation
… of ability and on performance measures in executive compensation. Furthermore, I also investigate the determinants on the compensation of university presidents. I find that that more weight is placed on signals of ability in R&D intensive firms and less weight is placed on performance …
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Corporate litigation, corporate governance restructuring, and executive compensation.
… examines the various penalties incurred by the executive officers of the sued corporations. A large sample of lawsuits filed against the Standard and Poor’s 1,500 companies during 2000-2007 is employed, comprising environmental violations, securities fraud, antitrust litigation, intellectual …
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Corporate governance, firm performance, and executive compensation : evidence from China
… governance mechanism, firm performance, and executive compensation within Chinese publicly listed firms. The corporate governance structure in China is a unique combination of the Anglo-American model and the German system by including a board of director and a supervisory board …
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Executive Compensation-- Gearing the Program to the Individual Executive's Needs
… no attempt in this paper to suggest ready made, executive compensation plans. The needs and requirements of the individual organization are to varied. Rather, this presentation is designed to serve as a stimulant to those who are responsible for formulating and administering executive …
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Board control, firm ownership structure, and chief executive compensation : an empirical analysis
… an important role in the determination of chief executive officer (CEO) compensation in large U.S. corporations. This study uses a model of political factors to attempt to describe their influence on both the overall amount and form of CEO compensation under differing growth and risk conditions. …
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Determinants of salary in nonprofit organizations: A study of executive compensation in symphony orchestras
… examining factors which influence nonprofit executive compensation. Results from the demand equation demonstrate that nonprofit orchestras operate in the inelastic portion of the demand curve. Thus, ticket sales generate negative marginal revenues and attendance is increased at the expense of …
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Mandatory ESG Disclosure and Executive Compensation: Evidence from the Europe Union Non-Financial Reporting Directive
… is associated with a change in discretionary compensation as a result of decision-useful information conveyed in the mandated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosures. While I expected that new ESG information (<em>Resist)</em> would experience cross-setting changes, my results …
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