Ceo Pay And Corporate Governance - 2305 Words

TABLE OF CONTENTS Is CEO Pay Too High and Are Incentives Too Low? P.1 CEO Pay and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts, and Challenges P.2 Not-for-Profit Hospital CEO Performance and Pay: Some Evidence from Connecticut P.3 Chief Executive Compensation: An Empirical study of Fat Cat CEOs P.4 Pay for Performance? CEO Compensation and Acquirer Returns in BHCs P.5 Boards of Directors, CEO Ownership, and the Use of Non-Financial Performance Measures in the CEO Bonus Plan P.6 Is CEO Cash Compensation Punished for Poor Firm Performance? P.7 The CEO Share Of Earnings: A New Approach To Evaluating Executive Compensation P.8 Core, J., Guary, W. (2010). Is CEO Pay Too High and Are Incentives Too Low? A Wealth Based Contracting†¦show more content†¦The researchers suggest leveraging rewarding CEOs with company stock rather than other forms of financial compensation. Kaplan, S. (2013). CEO Pay and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts, and Challenges. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance., 25(2), 8-25. The researcher of this article evaluated a large range of prior evidence and studies pertaining to the perception that have been previously formulated concern the compensation of a CEO and the governance surrounding organizations in the United State. The researcher evaluated the following perceptions that CEOS are currently, being over compensated for their performance and their compensation is constantly increasing, CEO may be actually being under paid for their performance in organizations, and finally that an organization’s board of director does not take proper action on CEOs who have poor performance. The author cites several past studies and prior research on each of the perceptions above to conclude that CEO pay has actually been decreasing since the 2000’s despite seeing an increase in the 1990’s. The researcher does suggest that the decline in CEO pay may actually be resulting in higher performing CEO’s are not being paid enough. The CEO pay for organizations listed on the SP 500 are lowest