Paying for long-term performance: restructuring bankers’ pay for risk regulation

Yu, E. and Yang, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-3058 (2011) Paying for long-term performance: restructuring bankers’ pay for risk regulation. In: British Academy of Management Conference, 13-15 September 2011, Aston University, Birmingham.

Abstract/Summary

The purpose of this paper is to propose hybrid capital securities as a new approach to compensation for senior bank executives and risk-takers instead of cash or equity-based compensation currently adopted by the industry. The global financial turmoil indicated that misaligned pay-for-performance compensation arrangements encouraged management short-termism and rewarded excessive risk-taking behaviour in Anglo-Saxon system. Rather than regulating specific instruments and processes, we believe that it is much more efficient to overhaul the compensation scheme to align it with risk management and governance. This empirical paper investigates the European hybrid market by employing data from the Merrill Lynch Global Index System from 2000 to 2010. Our paper contributes to both literature and practices by designing a structured scheme to tie the executive’s interests to long-term performance of the bank, the goal of regulators and the economy at large which consequently reduce the probability of future bank failures.

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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Digitalisation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
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