英文摘要 |
This study examines whether CEO cash compensation is less sensitive to restructuring charges than to the reversals of restructuring charges, i.e., an asymmetric treatment for restructuring charges and the related reversals. In addition, given that executive compensation design itself may be an agency problem, we also examine whether this asymmetric treatment varies with managerial power and compensation committee quality. Using a US sample of firm-year observations drawn from 1998 to 2011, this study finds that there is an asymmetric compensation treatment for restructuring charges and restructuring charge reversals. Further, we find that the degree of such asymmetric treatment increases with the managerial power, but decreases with the compensation committee quality. |