Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation / John R. Graham, Si Li, Jiaping Qiu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, John R.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Li, Si.

Qiu, Jiaping.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17368.

NBER working paper series no. w17368

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.

Summary:

We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many settings, it is important to include fixed effects to mitigate potential omitted variable bias. Furthermore, we find that compensation fixed effects are significantly correlated with management styles (i.e., manager fixed effects in corporate policies). Finally, the method used in the paper has a number of potential applications in financial economics.

Notes:

Print version record

August 2011.