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Executive Compensation: The Law And Incentives, Stas Getmanenko
Executive Compensation: The Law And Incentives, Stas Getmanenko
Stas Getmanenko
Excessive executive compensation frequently breeds resentment, undermines consumer faith in the financial system, and overly stigmatizes otherwise common business failures. Frequently, the opponents of lavish pay packages compare executive compensation to the compensation of rank-and-file workers. Such criticism reflects perfectly appropriate societal concerns over pay equity and distribution of wealth within a society. An entirely separate source of friction is the shareholders’ right to benefit from the corporation’s wealth. Shareholders’ dividend is directly reduced by the company’s expenses, one of which executive compensation. For most of today’s public companies the executive compensation expense is often negligible when considered in light …
The Rise And Fall Of Managerial Adaptive Responses To Incentive Pay, Sharon Hannes
The Rise And Fall Of Managerial Adaptive Responses To Incentive Pay, Sharon Hannes
Sharon Hannes
A commonly-voiced argument ties the current financial crisis to prevailing executive compensation practices. Huge stock-option packages and annual bonuses, the claim goes, caused managers to concentrate on the short-run and overlook the downside of risk-taking. But why did crisis emerge only recently, even though such incentive pay schemes are hardly a new phenomenon? This paper argues that for a long period of time, from the beginning of the 1990s until the beginning of the twenty-first century, managers employed a variety of adaptive tactics in response to option-based compensation and other risk-inducing pay schemes. These practices enabled executives to enrich themselves …