Adams, Renee B. and Ferreira, Daniel 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4590-8429
(2008)
Do directors perform for pay?
Journal of Accounting and Economics, 46 (1).
pp. 154-171.
ISSN 0165-4101
Abstract
Many corporations reward their outside directors with a modest fee for each board meeting they attend. Using a large panel data set on director attendance behavior in publicly-listed firms for the period 1996–2003, we provide robust evidence that directors are less likely to have attendance problems at board meetings when board meeting fees are higher. This is surprising since meeting fees, on average roughly $1,000, represent an arguably small fraction of the total wealth of a representative director in our sample. Thus, corporate directors appear to perform for even very small financial rewards.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-accoun... |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 Elsevier |
| Divisions: | Finance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| JEL classification: | G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance > G34 - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M5 - Personnel Economics > M52 - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects (stock options, fringe benefits, incentives, family support programs, seniority issues) |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2011 10:41 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2024 20:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/39400 |
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