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Corporate Governance, Managerial Compensation, and Disruptive Innovations

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  • Murat Celik

    (University of Toronto)

  • Xu Tian

    (University of Toronto)

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Whether a CEO manages the innovation efforts of the firm in line with shareholder preferences has a substantial impact on market value and firm growth, which in turn influence aggregate productivity growth and welfare. Using data on U.S. public firms, we find that (i) firms with better corporate governance tend to adopt highly incentivized contracts rich in stock options; and (ii) such contracts are more likely to lead to disruptive innovations -- patented inventions that are in the upper tail of the distribution in terms of quality and originality. We develop and estimate a new dynamic general equilibrium model of firm-level innovation with agency frictions and endogenous determination of executive contracts. The model is used to study the joint dynamics of corporate governance, managerial compensation, and disruptive innovations. Better corporate governance can reduce the influence of the CEO in the determination of the compensation structure. This leads to more incentivized contracts and boosts innovation, with substantial benefits for the shareholders, as well as the broader economy through knowledge spillovers. Shutting down the agency frictions leads to an increase in long-run output growth, which translates into a significant welfare gain in consumption equivalent terms.

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  • Murat Celik & Xu Tian, 2018. "Corporate Governance, Managerial Compensation, and Disruptive Innovations," 2018 Meeting Papers 590, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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