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Compensation Risk Taking

Compensation Risk Taking is a financial governance construct that denotes the extent to which incentive-based compensation structures induce executives to pursue excessive risk in firm decision-making, distinguished from other risk drivers by its direct linkage to contingent pay arrangements.

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487

Authors

335

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2017–2026

60

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Publications

255

Compensation for a bad start: grow now, pay later?

Neil B. Metcalfe, Pat Monaghan · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2001 · 1.9K citations

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Managerial Incentives, Monitoring, and Risk Bearing: A Study of Executive Compensation, Ownership, and Board Structure in Initial Public Offerings

Randolph P. Beatty, Edward J. Zajac · Administrative Science Quarterly · 1994 · 1K citations

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Empirical evidence on the relation between stock option compensation and risk taking

Shivaram Rajgopal, Terry Shevlin · Journal of Accounting and Economics · 2002 · 854 citations

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CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms: An Empirical Analysis

Stuart C. Gilson, Michael R. Vetsuypens · The Journal of Finance · 1993 · 483 citations

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Executive Compensation and the Maturity Structure of Corporate Debt

Paul Brockman, Xiumin Martin, Emre Unlu · The Journal of Finance · 2010 · 469 citations · Full text

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Authors

487

  1. LR
    Luis R. Gómez‐Mejía

    Arizona State University, United States

    7 publications · 893 citations

    7

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  2. RM
    Robert M. Wiseman

    Michigan State University, United States

    6 publications · 1.2K citations

    6

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  3. HM
    Hamid Mehran

    Federal Reserve Bank of New York, United States

    4 publications · 489 citations

    4

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  4. FT
    Frederick Tung

    Boston University, United States

    4 publications · 134 citations

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  5. AR
    Alon Raviv

    Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    4 publications · 81 citations

    4

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Institutions

335

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    11 h-index

    16 publications

    1.6K citations

  2. European Corporate Governance Institute

    Brussels, Belgium

    11 h-index

    14 publications

    558 citations

  3. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    928 citations

  5. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    286 citations

  6. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    768 citations

  7. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    374 citations

  8. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    670 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 59 publications · 2.5K citations

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  2. Journal of Corporate Finance

    12 publications · 494 citations

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  3. The Journal of Finance

    11 publications · 2.2K citations

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  4. Journal of Financial Economics

    8 publications · 1.2K citations

    8

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  5. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 6 publications · 125 citations

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