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Does social capital mitigate agency problems? Evidence from Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation

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Hoi, Chun Keung(Stan), Wu, Qiang, Zhang, Hao·2019·Journal of Financial Economics

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We find that social capital, as captured by secular norms and social networks surrounding corporate headquarters, is negatively associated with levels of CEO compensation. This relation holds in a range of robustness tests including those that address omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Additionally, social capital reduces the likelihood that firms make opportunistic option grant awards that unduly favor CEOs, including lucky awards, backdated awards, and unscheduled awards. Social capital also lessens the accretive effect of CEO power on CEO compensation. These findings indicate that social capital mitigates agency problems by restraining managerial rent extraction in CEO compensation.

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Authors
Hoi, C. K., Wu, Q., & Zhang, H.
Venue
Journal of Financial Economics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-08
Volume
133
Issue
2
Pages
498-519
ISSN
0304-405X (ISSN-L)
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322
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79
FWCI
69.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Hoi, C. K., Wu, Q., & Zhang, H. (2019). Does social capital mitigate agency problems? Evidence from Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation. Journal of Financial Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.02.009

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