Directors' Pay and Turnover: An Application to a Sample of Large UK Firms

Martin Conyon

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1998, vol. 60, issue 4, 485-507

Abstract: This paper examines the operation of the UK managerial labour market. We test the twin agency predictions that directors' pay is positively related to corporate performance and CEO turnover is negatively associated with firm profitability. We find that (i) the panel data econometric evidence reveals a significant and positive correlation between directors' pay, company performance and size, (ii) the CEO turnover model predicts a negative, and significant, association with pre‐dated shareholder returns: the data is consistent with the view that CEOs are disciplined by the threat of dismissal, (iii) boardroom governance factors (e.g. proportion of non‐executives and board size) are only of some importance in the CEO succession process.

Date: 1998
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