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U.K. Executive Compensation is Lower Than in the U.S., but Let’s Not Be So Quick to Blame Regulation

10 June 2024

Bobby Reddy

Do taxes explain why firms rarely use penalty remuneration contracts?

22 November 2022

Rainer Niemann

Mariana Sailer

Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance, and Tax Policy

2 November 2022

Michael Doran

Power & Pay in the C-Suite

Over the past few decades, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) pay has risen spectacularly, as has debate regarding why this has occurred and whether policy should or can correct it. Yet...

7 March 2022

Afra Afsharipour

Darren Rosenblum

Long Legal Transplants: illustrations from Japanese Corporate Governance

In a recent paper I take a look at how the past twenty years of reform to the rules governing corporate director compensation in Japan can be characterized...

4 March 2022

Sean McGinty

Venture Capitalist Directors and Managerial Incentives

Research has shown that venture capital (VC) firms substantially influence the overall economy. According to Gornall and Strebulaev (2021), among all US public companies founded since 1968, VC-backed...

Gender Gap at the Top: New Evidence on Policy Effectiveness

The persistent gender gap in corporate leadership has led several European countries to institute board-related policies such as gender quotas, starting with Norway in 2003. Recently, California became the first US...

28 October 2020

Swarnodeep Homroy

Shibashish Mukherjee

Clawback Provisions in Executive Compensation Contracts

In the wake of financial crises or corporate scandals, at some point the issue of executive compensation invariably comes up. When companies are in distress and shareholders, stakeholders and society...

25 August 2020

Johanna Stark

Emerging Corporate Governance Considerations for the Post-COVID-19 World

COVID-19 has upended life and the corporate world almost without exception. Pervasive business closures, credit defaults, and contract breaches have caused enormous personal anxiety and challenges for executive management. Governments...

12 May 2020

Ravipal S Bains

The Growing Global Appeal of CEO Pay Ratios and Lessons from the US Experience

The CEO pay ratio disclosure rule in the United States (US), adopted as part of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, was the first of a kind. Applying to publicly-held companies,...

27 February 2019

Steven A. Bank

George S Georgiev

U.K. Executive Compensation is Lower Than in the U.S., but Let’s Not Be So Quick to Blame Regulation

Do taxes explain why firms rarely use penalty remuneration contracts?

Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance, and Tax Policy

Power & Pay in the C-Suite

Long Legal Transplants: illustrations from Japanese Corporate Governance

Venture Capitalist Directors and Managerial Incentives

Gender Gap at the Top: New Evidence on Policy Effectiveness

Clawback Provisions in Executive Compensation Contracts

Emerging Corporate Governance Considerations for the Post-COVID-19 World

The Growing Global Appeal of CEO Pay Ratios and Lessons from the US Experience

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