Basel III and CEO Compensation in Banks: Pay Structures as a Regulatory Signal

Basel III and CEO compensation in banks : Pay structures as a regulatory signal

This paper proposes a new regulatory approach that implements capital requirements contingent on managerial compensation. We argue that excessive risk taking in the financial sector originates from the shareholder moral hazard created by government guarantees rather than from corporate governance failures within banks. The idea of the proposed regulation is to utilize the compensation scheme to...

CHAPTER 1 Supervision of Islamic Banks : The Regulatory Challenge — Basel II and Basel III

The Role and Effect of Compensation Consultants on CEO Pay

We examine the effect of compensation consultants on CEO pay. Using a sample of 292 firms in 2006 randomly selected from ExecuComp, we find that compensation consultants are associated with higher salaries, consistent with the hypothesis that consultants help boards of directors justify excessive CEO pay. However, we also find that the use of a consultant is associated with lower bonuses and to...

Corporate Governance, Compensation Consultants, and CEO Pay Levels

This study investigates the relation between corporate governance and CEO pay levels and the extent to which the higher pay found in firms using compensation consultants is related to governance differences. Using proxy statement disclosures from 2,110 companies, we find that CEO pay is higher in firms with weaker governance and that firms with weaker governance are more likely to use compensat...

Modeling Basel Regulatory in DSGE with Emphasis on Adequacy Regulatory

In this paper Basel regulation is modeled in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) framework. For this purpose, using data from 1981-2017 for Iran, capital adequacy as an importance regulation is modeled. Results show Basel regulation has procyclical effect. According to the results of the model and according to the realities of economy and banking system of Iran, in recession, lending ...