Are CEO's paid their marginal product? An empirical analysis of executive compensation and corporate performance (original) (raw)

1991, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

The theory and reality of chief executive compensation is explored in this paper. The study here uses a panel of data on 143 executives from America's largest corporations. The results suggest that earlier theoretical expectations and empirical findings of compressed wage scales may not hold when top-level managers are included.

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