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Executive Compensation Consultants And Ceo Pay, Martin J. Conyon
Executive Compensation Consultants And Ceo Pay, Martin J. Conyon
Vanderbilt Law Review
This Article surveys recent empirical studies on the relation between compensation consultants and CEO pay. The economic rationale for using executive compensation consultants is that they supply valuable data, information, and professional expertise to client firms. However, critics argue that the consultant's independence might be compromised because of conflicts of interest arising from the cross selling of business services or because of the consultant's desire to obtain repeat business. The emergent empirical evidence suggests that pay consultants are important in explaining executive compensation, although the findings are sometimes mixed and the precise effects of consultants on pay are yet to …
Intraportfolio Litigation, Amanda Rose, Richard Squire
Intraportfolio Litigation, Amanda Rose, Richard Squire
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The modern trend is for investors to diversify. Shareholders who own one S&P 500 firm tend to own many of the others as well. This trend casts doubt on the traditional compensation and deterrence rationales for legal rules that hold corporations liable for the acts of their agents. Today, when A Corp sues B Corp (for breach of contract, theft of trade secrets, or any other legal wrong), many of the same shareholders own both the plaintiff and the defendant. For these shareholders, damages just shift money from one pocket to another, minus of course lawyer fees. We offer here …