Download or read book The Effect of Cross listing on CEO Compensation and CEO Turnover written by Prasad Vemala and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Foreign firms that have cross-listed on stock exchanges in United States have achieved many benefits. However, the effect of cross-listing CEOs of firms that cross-list is little known. This study investigates the effect of cross-listing on CEO compensation and CEO turnover. Using a sample of firms from Canada that cross-listed on U.S. stock exchanges, this study finds that cross-listing does affect CEO pay and CEO turnover. In investigation this relationship, the study found that it is not the performance of the firms, but the status of cross-listing and board characteristics that cause CEO replacements. However, performance seems to affect CEO compensation both before and after cross-listing.
Download or read book International Cross listing Firm Performance and Top Management Turnover written by Ugur Lel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CEO Compensation and Turnover written by Eliezer M. Fich and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent wave of revelations involving corporate governance problems has created significant interest in the relationships between chief executive officers (CEOs) and their boards of directors. In this paper we focus on one important but previously uninvestigated characteristic of boards: the tendency of many boards to have two (or more) directors who are also members of another company's board. We define this relationship as a mutual interlock. We explore the consequences of this phenomenon for CEO compensation and CEO turnover.Our empirical analyses - conducted for a sample of 366 large companies, in which 87% of the companies have at least one mutual interlock - show that CEO compensation tends to be higher and CEO turnover tends to be lower when the CEO's board has one or more pairs of board members who are mutually interlocked with another company's board. There are two possible interpretations of these results. One is that the mutual interlocks are an indication of and a contributor to CEO entrenchment, and the higher compensation and lower turnover follow from this entrenchment. The other is that the mutual interlocks are an indication of the strengthening of an important and valuable strategic alliance for the company, and the higher CEO compensation and lower turnover are the CEO's reward for arranging the alliance. We believe that the first interpretation is more accurate, for the reasons discussed in the paper.
Download or read book The Impact of Forced CEO Turnover Announcements on Shareholder Value written by Roman Stebler and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the impact of forced CEO turnover announcements on shareholder value as measured by stock-price-based and accounting-based performance measures. Using a unique sample of 311 CEO turnover events at firms listed on the SP500 Index between 2000 and 2010, the study investigates the actual empirical relation between firing decisions of the board of directors and how capital markets perceives the quality and effectiveness of these decisions. This paper investigates the prevailing assumption that forced CEO turnovers in every sense represent positive news to shareholders and provides new evidence that shareholder critically differentiate between the dismissal of out- and underperforming top managers yet do not explicitly disesteem the dismissal of outperforming CEOs. Despite, analysis of changes in operating return on assets urge that ousting outperforming executives tends to have an adverse impact on firm value. The findings are further confirmed in a multivariate cross-sectional regression. Informative results from the regressions also indicate that shareholders seem to be more concerned with forced turnovers in times of overall economic downturn. Moreover, analysis on the causes of dismissal suggests that in a considerable number of events the board's explanation for ousting the incumbent CEO lacks credibility and that shareholders seem to assess top executives partially but not exclusively on the basis of past performance. Overall, the results contribute to the understanding of the effects of corporate governance mechanisms on shareholders based on the example of forced CEO turnovers.
Download or read book The Real Effects of CEO Compensation written by Jing Luo and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Real Effects of CEO Compensation: Evidence From Equity and Bonus Incentive Plans" by Jing, Luo, 羅婧, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This thesis consists of two essays exploring the effects of executive compensation contracts on the real economy. Evidence from equity incentive schemes and annual bonus plans are provided separately in the two essays. The first essay examines the relation between CEO option compensation and bank risk-taking, and the role of CEO option compensation in affecting bank performance during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Through panel regressions, I find that over the sample period (1993-2011), option awards received by bank CEO and CEO option holdings lead to higher bank risk which is not rewarded by better performance. Bank CEOs take more risk by engaging more in financial innovation and maintaining more risky loan portfolios. Institutional investors favor high option compensation in their own interests of pursuing short-term stock price upswing, while a larger board corrects this excessive risk-taking by providing bank CEOs with less option compensation. Cross-sectional evidence shows that during the crisis period, the effect of option compensation in increasing risk-taking and worsening performance comes from exercisable option holdings. In addition to the findings regarding option compensation, stock awards are shown to affect bank risk and performance, while stock holdings play no role. In the second essay, using a hand collected sample of 1491 firm-years spanning 2006-2011, for which I have been able to gather from annual incentive schemes performance measures and two levels of corresponding targets which represent board directors' performance expectations on chief executive officers (CEOs), I discover that the probability of CEO turnover significantly increases when a firm fails to meet its performance targets, and the likelihood of CEO replacement becomes even higher when minimum performance targets are missed. In a horse race of various financial measures used, failure to meet earnings targets most significantly increases the likelihood of CEO dismissal, and cash flow matters most when minimum targets are considered. Further, the effect varies with firm characteristics in that failing to meet revenue targets lead to turnover only in growth firms, while only in distressed firms CEOs are more likely to lose the job because of missing cash flow targets. Results are robust to the control of possible selection issues related to performance target disclosure and the choice of financial measures. Subjects: Executives - Salaries, etc
Download or read book Investor Protection CEO Pay and CEO Turnover written by Sihong Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines CEO compensation and turnover in eight countries (including Australia, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and United Kingdom) from 2000 to 2013 period and focuses on how legal investor protection affects compensation and replacement decisions. I use logistic regressions to investigate the association between investor protection and pay-performance sensitivity, and the association between investor protection and turnover-performance sensitivity. My empirical analysis documents that in firms with stronger investor protection, CEO cash compensation and turnover are more sensitive to accounting performance. And such an effect of investor protection is more pronounced for firms with low level of earnings management. However, the association between investor protection and the CEO pay-performance relationship is weaker after including equity-based compensation.
Download or read book CEO Turnover written by Kathleen Anne Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance written by Benjamin Hermalin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance, Volume One, covers all issues important to economists. It is organized around fundamental principles, whereas multidisciplinary books on corporate governance often concentrate on specific topics. Specific topics include Relevant Theory and Methods, Organizational Economic Models as They Pertain to Governance, Managerial Career Concerns, Assessment & Monitoring, and Signal Jamming, The Institutions and Practice of Governance, The Law and Economics of Governance, Takeovers, Buyouts, and the Market for Control, Executive Compensation, Dominant Shareholders, and more. Providing excellent overviews and summaries of extant research, this book presents advanced students in graduate programs with details and perspectives that other books overlook. Concentrates on underlying principles that change little, even as the empirical literature moves on Helps readers see corporate governance systems as interrelated or even intertwined external (country-level) and internal (firm-level) forces Reviews the methodological tools of the field (theory and empirical), the most relevant models, and the field’s substantive findings, all of which help point the way forward
Download or read book The NYSE Premium written by Colette Southam and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That American CEOs earn significantly more than their counterparts in other countries has been widely documented. The current study reveals that the “US premium” might be more accurately labelled the “NYSE premium”. Focusing on the constituent firms of the S&P/TSX Composite Index (the largest Canadian firms of which almost half are cross-listed on US exchanges) and after controlling for firm size, industry, and other firm level characteristics, the average premium paid to CEOs of Canadian firms listed on the NYSE was approximately 100% while the CEOs of Canadian firms listed on the Nasdaq or AMEX received no premium, when compared to CEOs of firms listed only on the TSX. Over time, the average NYSE premium has decreased from 130% in 1998 to 90% in 2010, consistent with the convergence of CEO compensation to US standards. However, there was a Nasdaq premium of 48% in 1998 which had become a Nasdaq discount of 65% by 2010, coinciding with an mass exodus of Canadian firms from the Nasdaq.
Download or read book Pay Without Performance written by Lucian A. Bebchuk and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and the CEO gets...a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is familiar, for good reason: as this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers' influence over their own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders. Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried demonstrate that corporate boards have persistently failed to negotiate at arm's length with the executives they are meant to oversee. They give a richly detailed account of how pay practices--from option plans to retirement benefits--have decoupled compensation from performance and have camouflaged both the amount and performance-insensitivity of pay. Executives' unwonted influence over their compensation has hurt shareholders by increasing pay levels and, even more importantly, by leading to practices that dilute and distort managers' incentives. This book identifies basic problems with our current reliance on boards as guardians of shareholder interests. And the solution, the authors argue, is not merely to make these boards more independent of executives as recent reforms attempt to do. Rather, boards should also be made more dependent on shareholders by eliminating the arrangements that entrench directors and insulate them from their shareholders. A powerful critique of executive compensation and corporate governance, Pay without Performance points the way to restoring corporate integrity and improving corporate performance.
Download or read book Strategic Leadership written by Sydney Finkelstein and published by Strategic Management. This book was released on 2009 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The basic premise is that in order to understand why organizations do the things they do, or perform the way they do, we need to deeply comprehend the people at the top-- their experiences, abilities, values, social connections, aspirations, and other human features. The actions--or inactions--of a relatively small number of key people at the apex of an organization can dramatically affect organizational outcomes. The scope of strategic leadership includes individual executives, especially chief executive officers (CEOs), groups of executives (top management teams, or TMTs); and governing bodies (particularly boards of directors). Accordingly, the book addresses an array of topics regarding CEOs (e.g., values, personality, motives, demography, succession, and compensation); TMTs (including composition, processes, and dynamics); and boards of directors (why boards look and behave the way they do, and the consequences of board profiles and behaviors). Strategic Leadership synthesizes what is known about strategic leadership and indicates new research directions. The book is meant primarily for scholars who strive to assess and understand the phenomena of strategic leadership. It offers a considerable foundation on which professionals involved in executive search, compensation, appraisal and staffing, as well as board members who evaluate executive performance and potential, might build their tools and perspectives.
Download or read book Comparing CEO Compensation Between Neighbors written by Colette Southam and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is wide consensus that CEOs of U.S. firms earn significantly more than their Canadian counterparts. Using a matched sample, we find that the majority of this difference is due to U.S. CEOs earning 50% more than CEOs of Canadian non-cross-listed firms. We find no such "U.S. premium" for Canadian cross-listed firms because the use of options allows these firms to keep pace with their neighbors to the south. While firms that list only in Canada compete in the labor market defined by their national boundary, the cross-listed firms appear to be directly competing with their U.S. counterparts for executive talent. That the compensation differential is reduced or eliminated for Canadian cross-listed firms is consistent with bonding through cross-listing rather than market integration.
Download or read book The Effects of Corporate Acquisitions on CEO Compensation and CEO Turnover of Family Firms written by Amedeo De Cesari and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the impact of corporate acquisitions on CEO compensation and CEO turnover of family firms in Continental Europe. We find that CEOs in family firms do not experience an increase in their compensation during the post-acquisition period, while there is a positive and statistically significant association between the compensation of CEOs in non-family firms and their acquisition activity. This finding is consistent with the view that controlling family shareholders provide monitoring for CEOs mitigating managerial agency problems that arise from the separation of ownership and control. Further, we find that the likelihood of CEO turnover declines following an acquisition in non-family firms, suggesting that these acquiring CEOs do not face a higher likelihood of dismissal while they receive a higher level of compensation. In contrast, there is no significant impact of acquisitions on CEO turnover in family firms.
Download or read book The Effect of Equity Compensation on Voluntary Executive Turnover written by Steven Balsam and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equity compensation provides incentives for executives to remain with the firm to avoid forfeiture of restricted shares and some or all of the value of stock options held. Empirically we show that the intrinsic value of unexercisable in-the-money options, the time value of unexercised options, and the value of restricted shares are inversely related to voluntary executive turnover. These findings which are most pronounced for strong performers, hold for CEOs and non-CEOs alike. While paying excess cash compensation also reduces turnover, the effect is less pronounced than that of equity compensation.
Download or read book The Impact of the CEO s View of Risk on Turnover and the Value of Equity written by Timothy Colin Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent theory predicts that two factors influencing the CEO's view of risk, overconfidence and debt-like compensation, have implications for CEO forced turnover and firm equity value, respectively. We test each of these predictions using large samples of CEOs from S & P 1500 firms, with statistical methods such as Cox proportional semi-parametric hazard models and Ordinary Least Squares regressions. Section 2 tests the theoretical prediction that CEOs with excessively low or excessively high overconfidence face a higher likelihood of forced turnover. We find empirical support for this prediction: excessively overconfident (diffident) CEOs have forced turnover hazard rates approximately 67% (97%) higher than moderately overconfident CEOs. To the extent that boards terminate non-value-maximizing CEOs, the results are broadly consistent with the view that there is an interior optimum level of managerial overconfidence that maximizes firm value. Section 3 tests the theoretical prediction that debt or debt-like compensation can be used as a part of optimal executive compensation, leading to an increase in the value of equity. We find weak evidence of positive abnormal returns in response to decreases in the deviation from optimal CEO debt-to-equity when the CEO's debt-to-equity was less than the firm's or when then firm had low institutional ownership. The results suggest that the optimal use of debt compensation can in fact be beneficial to equity holders.
Download or read book Changes in the Structure of CEO Compensation and the Firm s Pay Performance Sensitivity Following CEO Turnover written by David W. Blackwell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We document significant improvements in earnings and stock returns after CEO turnover. Compared to old CEOs, new CEOs derive more of their compensation from salary and bonus and option grants, but less from stock holdings. The sensitivity of pay to performance increases significantly after a change in CEO. The salary and bonus of the new CEO is much more sensitive to performance than that of the old CEO; stock holdings and option grants are less sensitive. Changes in pay-performance sensitivity are greater after exogenous turnover than after exogenous turnover.
Download or read book How to Make Boards Work written by A. Kakabadse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Make Boards Work offers a unique view of the thinking and doing of governance. The outside-in perspective offers a holistic framework highlighting how global cultural, social and political diversity impact boards of directors. The inside-out perspective emphasizes how governance and boards can effectively realize sustainable value creation.
