Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance

Cuñat, Vicente, Maria Guadalupe and Mireia Gine
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Vicente Cuñat

No 10141, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-sponsored SoP proposals. Adopting SoP leads to large increases in market value (4%) and to improvements in longterm performance: profitability and labor productivity increase, while overheads and investment fall. In contrast, we find limited effects on pay levels and structure. This suggests that SoP serves as a regular vote of confidence on the CEO, that leads to higher efficiency and market value.

Keywords: Corporate governance; Executive compensation; Say-on-pay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09
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