The Association Between Gender-Diverse Compensation Committees and CEO Compensation
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of Business Ethics, 2016, 139 (2), pp. 375 - 390
- Issue Date:
- 2016-12-01
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. We examine the association between gender-diverse compensation committees and CEO pay and find that CEO compensation levels are negatively associated with gender-diversity of the compensation committee, but not gender-diversity of the board. Furthermore, we find that excess CEO compensation is negatively related to subsequent return on assets for firms with an all-male compensation committee but not for firms with a gender-diverse compensation committee. These results suggest that CEOs do receive some level of excess compensation which can be mitigated by having one or more females on the compensation committee.
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