Jorgensen, Bjorn N., Patrick, Paige and Soderstrom, Naomi (2013) Unusual patterns in executive compensation. . Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
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We extend prior studies by incorporating inferences from the tax, earnings management and psychology literatures to explore discontinuities in the distributions of salary compensation, bonus compensation, and option grants that are unrelated to determinants derived from traditional agency theory. We document discontinuities at amounts evenly divisible by 100,000 or 10,000. Empirical analyses provide evidence that the sensitivity of bonus compensation to performance is lower when bonus compensation is rounded. We find evidence that rounding of bonus compensation has behavioral effects that improve future operating performance, consistent with Akerlof’s (1982) theory of gift exchange. We also find evidence that rounding is more common in firms where agency conflicts are more prevalent
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/research... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | Accounting |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| JEL classification: | M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M4 - Accounting and Auditing > M41 - Accounting N - Economic History > N2 - Financial Markets and Institutions > N20 - General, International, or Comparative N - Economic History > N6 - Manufacturing and Construction > N60 - General, International, or Comparative |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2013 13:52 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 20:24 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/51409 |
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