Journal
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
Volume 139, Issue 2, Pages 375-390Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2660-y
Keywords
Gender-diversity; Compensation committee; CEO compensation
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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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