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Can Compensation Committees Effectively Mitigate The Ceo Horizon Problem? The Role Of Co-Opted Directors, Ruonan Liu
Can Compensation Committees Effectively Mitigate The Ceo Horizon Problem? The Role Of Co-Opted Directors, Ruonan Liu
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Extant research finds inconclusive evidence about the CEO horizon problem. One possibility is that compensation committees design CEO compensation in a way that discourages retiring CEOs from opportunistic earnings management and R&D reduction. However, compensation committees dominated by co-opted directors may not be as effective as those with fewer co-opted directors in mitigating the CEO horizon problem, because directors co-opted by the CEO tend to bias their decisions in favor of the CEO. I find that compensation committees dominated by co-opted directors are associated with higher CEO compensation packages. I document R&D reduction and accruals management in firms with retiring …