Executive pay and performance: did bankers’ bonuses cause the crisis?

Gregg, P., Jewell, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4413-6618 and Tonks, I. (2012) Executive pay and performance: did bankers’ bonuses cause the crisis? International Review of Finance, 12 (1). pp. 89-122. ISSN 1468-2443 doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2443.2011.01136.x

Abstract/Summary

This paper examines the pay-performance relationship between executive cash compensation (including bonuses) and company performance for a sample of large UK companies, focusing particularly on the financial services industry, since incentive misalignment has been blamed as one of the factors causing the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Although we find that pay in the financial services sector is high, the cash-plus-bonus pay-performance sensitivity of financial firms is not significantly higher than in other sectors. Consequently, we conclude that it unlikely that incentive structures could be held responsible for inducing bank executives to focus on short-term results.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/24831
Identification Number/DOI	10.1111/j.1468-2443.2011.01136.x
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Politics, Economics and International Relations > Economics
Publisher	Wiley
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