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Theses/Dissertations

2012

Compensation, diversification, hedging, interaction, Informativeness, trader type

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Two Essays In Financial Economics, Jatin Ravikant Malhotra Aug 2012

Two Essays In Financial Economics, Jatin Ravikant Malhotra

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In the first chapter of this dissertation, I examine the relationship between hedging and diversification effects on CEO compensation in the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) industry. The REIT industry is suitable for this investigation for various reasons; primarily being that the REIT sample represents a relatively clean sample to study the effects of diversification and hedging on compensations. I find a positive and significant relationship between the interaction variable which reflects the effects of both hedging and diversification and CEO pay-for-performance sensitivity. This is consistent with the notion that managers are in a better position to manage firm risk …