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Title: | A comparison of CEO pay–performance sensitivity in privately-held and public firms | Authors: | Gao, Huasheng Li, Kai |
Keywords: | Ownership concentration CEO pay Pay–performance sensitivity Privately-held firms |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Source: | Gao, H., & Li, K. (2015). A comparison of CEO pay–performance sensitivity in privately-held and public firms. Journal of Corporate Finance, 35, 370-388. | Series/Report no.: | Journal of Corporate Finance | Abstract: | In this paper we study CEO contract design employing a unique dataset on privately-held and public firm CEO annual compensation over the period 1999–2011. We first show that CEOs in public firms are paid 30% more than CEOs in comparable privately-held firms. We further show that both private and public firm CEO pays are positively and significantly related to firm accounting performance, and that the pay–performance link is much weaker in privately-held firms. We then show that the above findings are robust to accounting for firms' self-selection into being privately-held, and a number of important differences between privately-held and public firms, including CEO ownership, employee stock ownership, stock liquidity, discipline from the takeover market, and the availability of different performance measures. Overall, our results support the view that concentrated ownership substitutes for CEO performance-based compensation contracts. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81582 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39554 |
ISSN: | 0929-1199 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2015.10.005 | Rights: | © 2015 Elsevier B.V. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier B.V.. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2015.10.005]. | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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