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Inside the Black Box the Role and Composition of Compensation Peer Groups
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- Faulkender, Michael (Author)
- Yang, Jun (Author)
Title
Inside the Black Box the Role and Composition of Compensation Peer Groups
Abstract
This paper considers the features of the newly disclosed compensation peer groups and demonstrates their significant role in explaining variations in chief executive officer (CEO) compensation beyond that of other benchmarks such as the industry-size peers. After controlling for industry, size, visibility, CEO responsibility, and talent flows, we find that firms appear to select highly paid peers to justify their CEO compensation and this effect is stronger in firms where the compensation peer group is smaller, where the CEO is the chairman of the board of directors, where the CEO has longer tenure, and where directors are busier serving on multiple boards.
Publication
Journal of Financial Economics
Volume
96
Issue
2
Pages
257-270
Date
2010
Citation
Faulkender, M., & Yang, J. (2010). Inside the Black Box the Role and Composition of Compensation Peer Groups. Journal of Financial Economics, 96, 257–270.
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