CEO presence on the compensation committee: a puzzle

Glenn Boyle () and Helen Roberts

Journal of Economics and Business, 2013, vol. 70, issue C, 16-26

Abstract: The managerial power view of executive compensation suggests that CEO membership of the compensation committee is an open invitation to rent extraction by self-serving executives. However, using data from New Zealand – where CEO compensation committee membership was relatively common until quite recently – we find that annual pay increments for CEOs with this apparent advantage averaged four percentage points less than those enjoyed by other CEOs during the 1998–2005 period. This puzzling result cannot be explained by omitted governance variables, risk-return tradeoff considerations, selection bias, or compensation mis-measurement. We find some weak evidence suggesting it may be consistent with a form of optimal contracting.

Keywords: Compensation committee; CEO remuneration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 J33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconbus.2012.08.002

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