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Determinants and consequences of large CEO pay

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  • Kiridaran Kanagaretnam
  • Gerald J. Lobo
  • Emad Mohammad

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We investigate the association between large CEO pay and the underlying economic determinants of pay, governance variables, variables capturing director pay, and other potential variables that may explain large CEO payouts. We also examine whether firms with large CEO pay have better future performance and use more financial reporting discretion than other firms. Our study is motivated by the large payouts to CEOs over the last decade that continue to attract considerable attention from institutional investors, regulators and the popular press. Our results indicate that whether a firm has large CEO pay is only weakly related to the underlying economic determinants but strongly related to components of outside director remuneration, the dual role of CEO and board chair, asset change, whether the firm has a new CEO, and CEO equity ownership. Additionally, we find that large CEO pay firms engage in higher levels of financial reporting discretion and have weaker future performance.

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  • Kiridaran Kanagaretnam & Gerald J. Lobo & Emad Mohammad, 2008. "Determinants and consequences of large CEO pay," International Journal of Accounting and Finance, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 1(1), pages 61-82.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:intjaf:v:1:y:2008:i:1:p:61-82
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