This paper summarizes the empirical and theoretical research on executive compensation and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of pay practices (and trends in pay practices) for chief executive officers (CEOs). Topics discussed include the level and structure of CEO pay (including

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

This dissertation is composed of three chapters in which I use both reduced-form approach and structural approach to study executive compensation in S&P1500 …rms from 1993 to 2005. Chapter 1 provides the literature and methodology background of this dissertation. I summarize existing accounting

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This paper presents the results of a heuristic and interpretive study of a public policy experiment in the criminal justice system, victim offender mediation conferencing. Conferences typically include the victim, the offender, their supporters and family members, and one or more conference facilitators. Participants report high levels of satisfaction with the process and outcomes with changes in attitudes, behavior, and social belonging. Preliminary conclusions are presented regarding characteristics of effective community-based moral education. Seven important characteristics typify victim offender conferences as a social space in which moral learning is enhanced: role effectiveness, situated learning, safety to openly address conflict, recurring free space for citizen empowerment, affective attachment to personal networks and social institutions, cognitive awareness and articulation of moral norms, and structured performance of moral norms. The key to their effectiveness appears to be the locus of moral learning: in the

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Harvey, Nicholas L B, "Towards a theory of Clergy Executive Compensation " (2011). Public Management and Policy Dissertations.

Executive Compensation and Investor Clientele Executive compensation has increased dramatically in recent times, but so has trading volume and individual investor access to financial markets. We provide a model where due toalackofsophisticationortonaïveté, possibly arising from high opportunity

In this paper, we examine whether the determinants and forms of executive compensation for NYSE versus NASDAQ listed firms are the same during the period from 1992 to 2004. We also investigate whether the determinants and forms of executive compensation changed after the NASDAQ crash in 2000