Executive compensation in less regulated markets: the impact of debt monitoring

This paper shows that in the lightly regulated Alternative Investment Market (AIM) voluntary corporate board structures might not reduce agency costs between shareholder and executive directors. In this less regulated market, we find that the extent of debt affects executive pay. In addition, the theoretical determinants of executive pay affect CEO and other executives’ pay and incentives differently in this market. We find no evidence that debt levels affect CEO pay in a matched sample of Main Market firms. Our results suggest that debtholders could be better monitors of executive directors’ actions, in comparison to voluntary governance committees in less regulated markets.     

Executive compensation in government-linked companies: evidence from Malaysia

The aim of this study was to explore the characteristics of executive pay, equity ownership incentives and pay–performance relationship in government-controlled firms. Data were hand-collected from the annual reports of 179 companies listed on Bursa Malaysia. The results show that executive pay is lower in government-linked companies. Positive pay–performance relationship is also not evident for this category of firms, which indicates that their executives were largely guaranteed with certain level of pay irrespective of performance. The level of equity ownership incentives provides the executives in government-controlled firms with very little incentive to produce effort that can improve firm performance. Overall, our findings are consistent with the inefficient pay hypothesis developed in this study.     

CEO Bonus Compensation and Bank Default Risk: Evidence from the U.S. and Europe

We investigate the link between the incentive mechanisms embedded in CEO cash bonuses and the riskiness of banks. For a sample of U.S. and European banks, we employ the Merton distance to default model to show that increases in CEO cash bonuses lower the default risk of a bank. However, we find no evidence of cash bonuses exerting a risk‐reducing effect when banks are financially distressed or when banks operate under weak bank regulatory regimes. Our results link bonus compensation in banking to financial stability and caution that attempts to regulate bonus pay need to tailor CEO incentives to the riskiness of banks and to regulatory regimes.     

董事会治理、高管薪酬对内部控制有效性的影响——来自沪、深两市采掘业上市公司2008～2010年经验数据

本文为研究董事会治理、高管薪酬与内部控制有效性的关系,选取2008～2010年沪深两市采掘业上市公司为样本数据,构建内部控制指数,从董事会治理和高管薪酬两个方面来考察对内部控制有效性的影响。研究发现,董事会治理和高管薪酬对内部控制有效性有一定影响。合理的董事会治理结构是企业增强竞争力和提高经营效率的必要条件,同时高管薪酬在某种程度上也影响着公司内部控制有效性的实现。     

我国创业板上市公司高管薪酬结构对公司绩效的影响研究

如何设计一套具有激励性的薪酬方案对于现代公司发展至关重要,以我国2010年创业板上市公司为样本,对以净利润衡量的公司绩效与高管薪酬结构间的关系的研究发现:公司绩效与高管层平均薪酬显著正相关,与CEO薪酬无显著相关性;与CEO持股比例负相关性较显著,但与高管层平均持股比例无显著相关性;与CEO和高管层的薪酬差距、持股比例差距均显著负相关;与公司规模、公司董事、监事和高级管理人员总数显著正相关。     

Executive risk incentives,product market competition,and R&D

Prior studies have examined the relation between product market competition (PMC) and research and development (R&D) investments, while the impact of executive risk incentives on this relation remains unexplored. In this study, we find that Vega (the sensitivity of executives’ wealth to stock return volatility) weakens the negative relation between PMC and R&D. We also find that Vega strengthens the negative relation between PMC and firm performance when R&D investments grow higher. In sum, our results suggest that high‐Vega compensation portfolios in competitive environments may induce executives to overinvest in R&D projects, therefore hurting firm performance.     

高管持股、经济政策不确定性与企业绿色投资

选取2011-2017年我国沪深A股重污染行业上市公司作为研究样本,考察了高管持股对企业绿色投资的影响.研究发现:高管持股与企业绿色投资间呈现倒U型关系.即高管持股存在一个临界值,当低于临界值时,高管持股能够发挥利益协同效应,促进企业提高绿色投资;当高于临界值时,高管持股会引发壕沟防御效应,削弱企业绿色投资.进一步考察外部环境后发现,经济政策不确定下减少了高管持股对企业绿色投资的利益趋同效应,但政府环境规制下扩大了两者间的利益趋同效应.     

Inside Agency: The Rise and Fall of Nortel

By employing the theoretical template provided by agency theory, this article contributes a detailed clinical analysis of a large multinational Canada-headquartered telecommunications company, Nortel. Our analysis reveals a twenty-first century norm of usual suspects: a CEO whose compensation is well above those of his peers, a dysfunctional board of directors, acts of income smoothing to preserve the confidence of volatile investors, and revelations of financial irregularities followed by a downfall. In many ways, the spectacular rise and – sudden – fall of Nortel illustrates excesses of actors within, and contradictions of the system of corporate governance implied by the agency model. Furthermore, this case illustrates limitations of the agency framework in complex situations with short-term oriented investors.     

改善民生：精兵简政，势在必行——兼论财政支出的合理性

政府的财政收入主要来自于税收,纳税人的钱只能有两种用处,一是维护国家机器的正常运转;二是改善民生。而且二者是此消彼长,即在财政收入一定的条件下,要想增加社会保障和社会福利,就必须减少行政事业费开支,而达到这一目的的唯一出路就是精兵简政。精兵简政不仅可以节省资金,用来解决民生问题,而且只有精兵简政才能提升军队的战斗力,只有精兵简政才能提高工作效率,只有精兵简政才能减少权力寻租,只有精兵简政才能实现高薪养廉,只有精兵简政才能降低税费收缴,从而有利于增加生产,扩大就业。     

论提升执行力内涵、存在问题及方法途径

执行力就是生命力。执行力有着极其丰富的内涵,本文查摆了执行力存在问题,分析了根源,提出了四个方面的方法途径:即要树立正确的执行理念;要用学习创新的成果充实执行力;要用科学管用的制度保障执行力;要用实际成效检验执行力。