Product Market Competition and CEO Pay Benchmarking

Ivan E. Brick and Darius Palia

Chapter 45 in Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Machine Learning:(In 4 Volumes), 2020, pp 1695-1723 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This chapter examines the impact of product market competition on the benchmarking of a CEO’s compensation to their counterparts in peer companies. Using a large sample of US firms, we find a significantly greater effect of CEO pay benchmarking in more competitive industries than in less competitive industries. Using three proxies for managerial talent that have been used by Albuquerque et al. (2013), we find that CEO benchmarking is more pronounced in competitive markets wherein managerial talent is more valuable. This suggests that pay benchmarking and product market competition are complements. The above results are not due to industry homogeneity.

Keywords: Financial Econometrics; Financial Mathematics; Financial Statistics; Financial Technology; Machine Learning; Covariance Regression; Cluster Effect; Option Bound; Dynamic Capital Budgeting; Big Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 C1 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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