Executive Compensation and Risk Taking

CEO pay incentives and risk-taking - Edinburgh Research Explorer

and the risk-taking incentives embedded in the executive compensation contracts at banks. JEL Classification: G21; G34; G33; J33. Key words: banks; mergers ...

CEO risk-taking incentives and corporate social responsibility - NCBI

We examine how firms adjust CEO risk-taking incentives in response to risk environments associated with their corporate social ...

Executive Compensation and Risk Taking in the Property and ... - jstor

holders. This study examines the relationship between executives' stock-based compensation and managerial risk-taking behavior in the property liability ...

CEO Incentive Compensation and Risk-Taking Behavior

Responding to calls for research on the combined effects of executive compensation arrangements and executive characteristics, we examine the moderating ...

CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence from a ...

This paper examines the relationship between managerial compensation and corporate risk-taking in light of an unanticipated increase in firms' business ...

Do Executive Stock Options Encourage Risk-Taking?

Executive stock options create incentives for executives to manage firms in ways that maximize firm market value. Since options increase in value with the ...

CEO compensation and firm performance: The mediating effects of ...

Specifically, we hypothesize that CEO compensation indirectly influences firm performance through its direct effects on CEO risk-taking behavior. Results based ...

Taking Stock of Corporate Risk-Taking

This study offers unique insights to boards and the board subcommittees tasked with executive compensation and risk management. Most notably ...

CEO INCENTIVE COMPENSATION AND RISK- TAKING BEHAVIOR

Keywords: CEO Incentive Compensation, Risk-Taking Behavior, CEO Characteristics. INTRODUCTION. Over the past two decades, CEO compensation has interested ...

Compensation and Risk Incentives in Banking and Finance

We review why executive compensation contracts are often structured the way they are, analyze risk incentives stemming from various pay schemes, and examine ...

How Important are Risk-Taking Incentives in Executive ... - ECGI

Risk-taking incentives are important in CEO compensation contracts, because equity compen- sation exposes CEOs to firm-specific risk. Risk- ...

Executive pay and Risk-taking - The Shareholder Forum

We argue for regulating the pay of bank executives as an important element of banking regulation. Our approach would structure executive compensation for banks ...

Analyst coverage, executive compensation and corporate risk ...

Results are driven by firms with stronger managerial risk-taking compensation incentives. The increase in risk is stronger in more opaque firms, ...

executive compensation, bankruptcy risk, and managerial risk taking

Compensation studies suggest that equity-based compensation can align the interests of shareholders and managers in terms of managerial risk taking choices.

How Important Are Risk-Taking Incentives in Executive ...

This paper investigates whether observed executive compensation contracts are designed to provide risk-taking incentives in addition to ...

CEO Pay Gaps and Bank Risk-Taking - Taylor & Francis Online

We find strong evidence that larger CEO pay gaps are associated with lower risk levels, improved financial performance, and greater information transparency.

Option implied riskiness and risk-taking incentives of executive ...

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The role of risk in executive compensation. - APA PsycNet

taking behavior and providing incentives for optimizing long-term performance. It was predicted that executives in high risk firms would receive higher ...

Boards can manipulate risk taking behaviour through CEO pay

New US research suggests companies can vary their executive pay strategy to control risk-taking behaviour.

The Impact of CEO Compensation on Firm Risk

Keywords: CEO pay, CEO compensation, Executive compensation, Firm risk, Risk-taking behavior, Pay-risk relationship, Corporate governance ...