Executive Remuneration and Employee Performance-Related Pay A Transatlantic Perspective

by Boeri, Tito; Lucifora, Claudio; Murphy, Kevin J.

• ISBN13: 9780199669806
• ISBN10: 0199669805
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-05-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The recent financial crisis has created a public outcry over top-executive pay packages and has led to calls for reform of executive pay in Europe and the US. The current controversy is not the first - nor will it be the last - time that executive compensation has sparked outrage and led to regulation on both sides of the Atlantic. This volume compares US and European CEOs to trace the evolution of executive compensation, its controversies and its resulting regulations. It showsthat many features of current executive compensation practices reflect the, often-unintended, consequences of regulatory responses to perceived abuses in top-executive pay, which frequently stem from relatively isolated events or situations. Regulation creates unintended (and usually costly) sideeffects and it is often driven by political agendas rather than shareholder value. Improvements in executive compensation are more likely to come from stronger corporate governance, and not through direct government intervention. The volume also examines the effects of incentive schemes and the patterns of performance related pay both within and across countries. It documents a number of empirical regularities and discusses whether government should intervene to support the implementation of incentive pay schemes. It argues that it makes little sense to undertake reform without detailed simulations of the effect on the economy under alternative economic scenarios, based on sound analysis and extensive discussion withlabour, management, and government decision-makers.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: The Executive Compensation Controversy: A Transatlantic Analysis Martin J. Conyon, Nuno Fernandes, Miguel A. Ferreira, Pedro Matos, and Kevin J. Murphy
Executive Summary
Introduction
1. The Evolution of Executive Compensation: The US Experience
2. The Transatlantic Pay Divide: Is Europe Catching Up?
3. Banking Bonuses and the Financial Crisis
4. Summary and Policy Implications
Comment by John Van Reenen
Part II: Paying for Performance: Incentive Pay Schemes and Employees' Financial Participation Alex Bryson, Richard Freeman, Claudio Lucifora, Michele Pellizzari, and Virginie Perotin
Executive summary
Introduction
5. Forms of Incentive Pay
6. Performance Pay and Financial Participation
7. Theoretical Implications
8. Empirical Literature
9. New Evidence on Performance Related Pay
10. Should Governments Encourage Group Incentive Pay and Financial Participation?
Comment by Oriana Bandiera