This essay analyses the relationship between corporate governance practices and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) wages from a sample of Portuguese listed companies over the …

Purpose–This paper aims to study the determinants of variable compensation for top
Portuguese executives (chief executive officers, chief financial officers and commercial …

In this article we analyse old-age retirement decisions of Slovenian men and women eligible
to retire in the period 1997–2003. In comparison with established market economies we find …

In this paper we investigate the under-researched topic of the use of executive share-based
compensation in Poland, and we analyse empirically whether theoretical explanations …

Purpose–The optimal contracting view assumes that compensation arrangements should
not reward performance upward that is beyond the management's control. Critics to this view …

In the middle of the 90s, the sharp increase in globalization and the last privatization wave
have promoted the sha** of a market for executives in France. Characteristics of this …

Using trader‐level data, we examine the impact of the stock‐specific endogenous reference
points, the 'realized‐return'and the 'peak‐return'of the prior round on the selling propensity in …

Corporate governance literature suggests that the relationship between CEO effort and
outcomes such as firm performance is highly uncertain due to the influence of numerous …

This paper analyses how envy affects the decisions of competing managers and their
optimal stock‐based compensation from the perspective of shareholder value. We consider …

Because of deploying specific methods of privatization that favoured domestic over foreign
owners and that enabled both internal owners and state-controlled funds to gain control over …