Executive Compensation and Competition in the Banking and Financial Sectors

Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 33, pp. 439-474, 2009

34 Pages Posted: 30 Jul 2013

See all articles by Maria Guadalupe

Maria Guadalupe

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); INSEAD - Economics and Political Sciences; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Vicente Cuñat

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Financial Markets Group; The London School of Economics

Date Written: 2009

Abstract

This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to performance. To measure the effect of competition we use two different identification strategies on a panel of US executives. We exploit two deregulation episodes in the banking and financial sectors as quasi-natural experiments. We provide difference-in-differences estimates of the effect of competition on estimated performance-pay sensitivities and on the sensitivity of stock option grants. Our results indicate that a higher level of product market competition increases the performance pay sensitivity of executive compensation schemes.

Suggested Citation

Guadalupe, Maria and Guadalupe, Maria and Cuñat, Vicente and Cuñat, Vicente, Executive Compensation and Competition in the Banking and Financial Sectors (2009). Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 33, pp. 439-474, 2009 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1947002

Maria Guadalupe (Contact Author)

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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INSEAD - Economics and Political Sciences ( email )

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Vicente Cuñat

The London School of Economics ( email )

United Kingdom

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London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Financial Markets Group ( email )

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