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dc.contributor.advisorAnderson, Ronald
dc.creatorImes, Matthew Douglas
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-26T19:19:32Z
dc.date.available2020-10-26T19:19:32Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/1493
dc.description.abstractMy dissertation consists of three chapters which explores various aspects of executive incentives. In the first chapter, I examine the relation between executive equity pay and stock returns. By compensating CEOs and CFOs differently, shareholders can create incentive conflicts between the firms’ top two managers that potentially affects shareholder wealth. On the one hand, incentive conflict potentially benefits shareholders by improving information exchange and establishing checks and balances in decisions made jointly by the CEO and CFO but alternatively, can harm shareholders by increasing risk through impeding the decision-making processes. I examine the relation between CEO-CFO incentive conflict and stock returns. The analysis indicates that an investor who routinely buy firms with the least incentive conflict and shorts firms with the greatest incentive conflict between CEO and CFOs will outperform the market by 475 basis points per year. I investigate whether risk, firm performance, or market inefficiency explain the excess returns and provide evidence that shareholders demand higher returns for bearing risk associated with CEO-CFO incentive similarities. Next, I explore the impact of executive incentives on bondholder wealth through looking at bond yields. Firms compensate managers to maximize shareholder value, yet these same incentives affect bondholder risk. I investigate the relation between executive equity pay and the cost of debt. My findings indicate a “u-shaped” relation between bond yields and equity pay. These results are consistent with the notion that bondholders prefer a moderate amount of executive equity pay and above or below that level, bondholders increase yields to protect their interests. Instrumenting equity pay using CEO heritage, I find support for a curvilinear relation. These findings suggest that moderate levels of equity pay mitigate the agency costs between firm shareholders and bondholders. Finally, I study the affect of board gender diversity on CEO and director compensation. Females occupy only about 12% of director positions on corporate boards. I find that boards with more female’s onboard tend to give CEOs larger fractions of equity in their compensation packages while incentivizing directors with lower fractions of equity pay. This evidence is consistent with the notion that female board members are superior monitors yet also possess greater risk-aversion than male board members.
dc.format.extent128 pages
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTemple University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofTheses and Dissertations
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dc.subjectFinance
dc.subjectBusiness Administration
dc.subjectBoard Diversity
dc.subjectCorporate Governance
dc.subjectExecutive Compensation
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectManagerial Conflict
dc.subjectStock Returns
dc.titleEssays In Executive Incentives
dc.typeText
dc.type.genreThesis/Dissertation
dc.contributor.committeememberJohn, Kose
dc.contributor.committeememberShoham, Amir
dc.contributor.committeememberChinloy, Peter, 1950-
dc.contributor.committeememberZur, Emanuel
dc.description.departmentBusiness Administration/Finance
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1475
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dc.description.degreePh.D.
refterms.dateFOA2020-10-26T19:19:32Z


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