Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2012
Journal / Book Title
Journal of business finance & accounting
Abstract
Are CEO compensation packages designed to alleviate some of the personal risks that they bear? We employ a unified framework to test the relationship between the four major components of executive pay; salary, bonuses, option grants and restricted stock grants, and four factors that increase CEOs' personal risks; the real value of their pay, the riskiness of firm equity, the value of their equity portfolios, and the delta of these equity holdings. We show that personal risks that CEOs face have significant effects on the design of their compensation contracts. Our results suggest that the portion of salary compensation decreases many of the personal risks that they face. There are intriguing differences between salary and bonuses on one hand, and option and restricted stock grants on the other. As predicted, we find that the delta of CEOs' equity portfolios have strong nonlinear relationships with the different forms of compensation; especially with option grants.
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-5957.2012.02304.x
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Lord, Richard and Saito, Yoshie, "Does Compensation Structure Alleviate Personal CEO Risks?" (2012). Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 48.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/acctg-finance-facpubs/48
Published Citation
Lord, R. A., & Saito, Y. (2012). Does compensation structure alleviate personal CEO risks?. Journal of business finance & accounting, 39(9‐10), 1272-1297.