Executive Compensation and Business Policy Choices at U. S. Commercial Banks
Author: Robert DeYoung
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2010-08
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 1437931006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines whether and how the terms of CEO compensation contracts at large commercial banks between 1994 and 2006 influenced, or were influenced by, the risky business policy decisions made by these firms. The authors find strong evidence that bank CEOs responded to contractual risk-taking incentives by taking more risk; bank boards altered CEO compensation to encourage executives to exploit new growth opportunities; and bank boards set CEO incentives in a manner designed to moderate excessive risk-taking. These relationships are strongest during the second half of the author¿s sample, after deregulation and technological change had expanded banks' capacities for risk-taking. Charts and tables.