New active blockholders and adjustment of CEO relative incentive ratios

Phuong L. Nguyen, Neal Galpin and Garry Twite

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2022, vol. 72, issue C

Abstract: We study the emergence of blockholders as an important mechanism that corrects deviations from target CEO relative debt-to-equity incentive ratios. We find that a new active blockholder more likely emerges when a firm deviates from target; deviations fall during the period the blockholder owns shares; and deviations fall more when the blockholder appoints a director to the firm. When a firm is above (below) target, blockholders are associated with less (more) inside debt and more (no change in) inside equity, implying there is no “one-size-fits-all” compensation change for blockholders. Outside debt and equity increase for both above and below target firms.

Keywords: Blockholders; CEO compensation; Inside debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 G23 G32 G34 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2021.102127

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