ERIM Research Clinic: Executive Compensation

Speaker
Ingolf Dittmann
Ingolf Dittmann
Professor of Corporate Governance and Managerial Accounting
Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Erasmus University Rotterdam

Abstract

The first part of this lecture is an introduction to research on executive pay. We will review some important stylized facts, the main research questions in this field, and some of the answers to them.

In the second part, I will give an overview of my own research. I will introduce a basic model of executive compensation and explain how this model can be calibrated to the data. It turns out that some variants of the model are rejected by the data while others seem to explain executive compensation reasonably well.

Required reading:

Abowd, J.M., Kaplan, D.S. (1999). Executive Compensation: Six Questions That Need Answering. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13 (4), 145-168.

Contact information:
Miho Iizuka
Email



Information

Type
ERIM Research Clinic
Programme
Finance & Accounting
Date
Mon. 16 May. 2011
Time
11:00 - 12:45
Location
Mandeville Building T3-30

Coordinator

Miho Iizuka
Miho Iizuka
Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus University Rotterdam