Executives' Short-Term and Long-Term Incentives - A Distributional Analysis

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Zitierfähiger Link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10900/98337
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-983372
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-39718
Dokumentart: Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-02-25
Originalveröffentlichung: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics ; No. 131
Sprache: Englisch
Fakultät: 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fachbereich: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
DDC-Klassifikation: 330 - Wirtschaft
Schlagworte: Verteilung , Benchmarking , Leistungsvergleich
Freie Schlagwörter:
Executive Compensation
Method of Moments-Quantile Regression
Short-Term Performance
Long-Term Performance
Distribution
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Abstract:

Executives are often paid for short-term changes in shareholder wealth, but rational shareholders want executives to maximize long-term shareholder wealth. Incentives for short-term and long-term oriented behavior may depend on an executive's level of pay in the distribution, holding other factors constant. This paper tests for distributional heterogeneity of short-term and long-term incentives in a 12 year cross-country panel of executives. I use the band-pass filter to separate short-term and long-term shareholder wealth changes (Christiano and Fitzgerald, 2003), and estimate of the shareholder wealth-pay relation using method of moments-quantile regression, developed by Machado and Santos Silva (2019), which accounts for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity of executive-firm pairs across the distribution. When using yearly total compensation to measure pay, executives in the upper tail of the conditional compensation distribution have longer-term oriented incentives. In contrast, when accumulated executive wealth is used to measure pay, executives in the upper tail of the wealth distribution have shorter-term oriented incentives. Since executive wealth encompasses changes to executive utility after pay is granted through accumulated equity-linked pay, it is the preferred measure for evaluating equity-linked pay. Results thus suggest that equity-linked pay should have a longer vesting period for executives in the upper tail than in the lower tail. I find evidence that executives in the upper-tail are evaluated relatively to the industry's short-run and long-run performance.

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