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Contingent Capital In Executive Compensation, Wulf A. Kaal Sep 2012

Contingent Capital In Executive Compensation, Wulf A. Kaal

Washington and Lee Law Review

Contingent capital has great potential to improve corporate governance in Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs). Early initiatives by European SIFIs to include contingent convertible bonds in executive compensation packages lack governance-improving designs. This Article suggests the use of contingent convertible bonds with an early conversion trigger in executive compensation. The proposal adds an important element to the literature on inside debt and the creditor-centered approach to executive compensation. Contingent convertible bonds with early triggers could be preferable to other debt instruments because, in addition to lowering income inequality and increasing sustainability, the early trigger design can improve incentives for executives …


Do End-Users Get The Best Of Both Worlds?—Title Vii Of Dodd–Frank And The End-User Exception, Carney Simpson Jun 2012

Do End-Users Get The Best Of Both Worlds?—Title Vii Of Dodd–Frank And The End-User Exception, Carney Simpson

Washington and Lee Law Review

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