• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Institutional Investors and Executive Compensation
  • Contributor: Hartzel, Jay C. [Author]; Starks, Laura T. [Other]
  • Published: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2008]
  • Published in: NYU Working Paper ; No. FIN-00-015
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (39 p)
  • Language: Not determined
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 2000 erstellt
  • Description: Due to institutional investors' increasing ownership and interest in corporate governance, we hypothesize that the presence of institutional investors is associated with certain executive compensation structures. We find a significantly negative relation between the level of compensation and the concentration of institutional ownership, suggesting that institutions serve a monitoring role in the shareholder-manager agency problem. We further find a significantly positive relation between the pay-for-performance sensitivity of executive compensation and both the level and concentration of institutional ownership.These results suggest that the institutions act as a complement rather than a substituteto incentive compensation in mitigating the agency problem
  • Access State: Open Access