Three Essays on Executive Compensation - KOPS - Universität ...
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CONTENTS<br />
1.6.1 Performance Measures, Risk Measure and Fixed Effects . . . . 36<br />
1.6.2 Sub-Period Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
1.6.3 Quantile Regressi<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br />
1.7 C<strong>on</strong>cluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46<br />
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47<br />
2 Which Pay for what Performance? Evidence from <strong>Executive</strong> Compensati<strong>on</strong><br />
in Germany and the United States 59<br />
2.1 Introducti<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />
2.2 Related Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62<br />
2.2.1 Evidence from the U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />
2.2.2 Evidence from Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />
2.2.3 Comparative Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />
2.3 Data Descripti<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />
2.3.1 Compensati<strong>on</strong> Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />
2.3.2 Performance Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
2.4 Research Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
2.5 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />
2.5.1 Results for Total Compensati<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />
2.5.2 Results for Cash B<strong>on</strong>uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82<br />
2.5.3 Results for L<strong>on</strong>g-Term Compensati<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />
2.5.4 Differences in Pay-Performance Sensitivities . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />
2.6 Robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />
2.7 C<strong>on</strong>cluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />
3 Profit Sharing with <strong>Executive</strong>s 113<br />
3.1 Introducti<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br />
3.2 Related Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116<br />
3.3 Variable Definiti<strong>on</strong> and Hypothesis Development . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />
3.4 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124<br />
3.5 Empirical Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129<br />
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