Journal of Corporate Finance Vol. 46 2017
Are managers paid for better levels of pension funding?
Abstract
Despite the evidence that full funding of defined benefit pension obligations is value maximizing, managerial price and volatility sensitivities (deltas and vegas) do not appear to influence funded status for all except the CFOs of plan sponsors with weak credit ratings (Anantharaman and Lee, 2014). Whether realized total compensation (as opposed to changes in the value of securities held) encourages full funding is an open question. Here we examine the empirical relation between realized managerial compensation and the extent to which plan liabilities are funded, and find that CEO pay bears a significant relation with funded status.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.06.014
- Volume
- 46
- Pages
- 25-33
- Language
- en
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref