Executive compensation and competition in the banking and financial sectors

被引:84
作者
Cunat, Vicente [1 ]
Guadalupe, Maria [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] London Sch Econ A450, London WC2A 2AE, England
[2] Columbia Univ, CEPR, New York, NY 10027 USA
[3] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
Executive compensation; Performance-related pay; Incentives; Product market competition; Deregulation; PRODUCT-MARKET COMPETITION; MANAGERIAL INCENTIVES; STOCK-OPTIONS; DEREGULATION; PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRY; CONTRACTS; RISK;
D O I
10.1016/j.jbankfin.2008.09.003
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their executives. We use a panel of US executives in the 1990s and exploit two deregulation episodes in the banking and financial sectors as quasi-natural experiments. We provide difference-in-differences estimates of their effect on (1) total pay, (2) estimated fixed pay and performance-pay sensitivities, and (3) the sensitivity of stock option grants. Our results indicate that the deregulations Substantially changed the level and structure of compensation: the variable components of pay increased along with performance-pay sensitivities and, at the same time, the fixed component of pay fell. The overall effect on total pay was small. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:495 / 504
页数:10
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