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CEO Compensation

Published:2010-12-01 Issue:1 Volume:2 Page:75-102
ISSN:1941-1367
Container-title:Annual Review of Financial Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:Annu. Rev. Financ. Econ.

Author:

Frydman Carola¹,Jenter Dirk²

Affiliation:

1. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;

2. Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305;

Abstract

This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others interpret high pay as the result of optimal contracting in a competitive market for managerial talent. We describe and discuss the empirical evidence on the evolution of CEO pay and on the relationship between pay and firm performance since the 1930s. Our review suggests that both managerial power and competitive market forces are important determinants of CEO pay, but that neither approach is fully consistent with the available evidence. We briefly discuss promising directions for future research.

Publisher

Annual Reviews

Subject

Economics and Econometrics,Finance

Link

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-financial-120209-133958

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