Do common inherited beliefs and values influence CEO pay?

Ellahie, A, Tahoun, A and Tuna, I (2017) Do common inherited beliefs and values influence CEO pay? Journal of Accounting and Economics, 64 (2-3). pp. 346-367. ISSN 0165-4101 OPEN ACCESS

Abstract

We use the ethnicity of CEOs across 31 countries as a proxy for their common inherited beliefs and values and find an ethnicity effect in CEO compensation. We find that the ethnicity effect in variable pay is not driven by the ethnicity effects in corporate policy decisions, and that changes in CEO compensation are significantly larger when CEOs are replaced with a person from a different ethnicity. Our estimated ethnicity effect capture the future time reference and religion of CEOs' ancestors. Finally, we find an ethnicity effect in performance-firing sensitivities (i.e., the sensitivity to being fired due to poor performance).

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Item Type: Article
Subject Areas: Accounting
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© 2017 Elsevier

Funder Name: European Research Council
Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2017 09:04
Date of first compliant deposit: 13 Oct 2017
Subjects: Ethnic minorities
Compensatory employment
Last Modified: 16 Jan 2024 01:44
URI: https://lbsresearch.london.edu/id/eprint/891
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