CEO contractual protection and managerial short-termism

CEO contractual protection and managerial short-termism

How to address managerial short-termism has been an important issue for companies, regulators, and researchers. In this paper we examine the impact of CEO contractual protection, in the form of employment agreement and severance pay agreement, on managerial short-termism. We find that firms with CEO...

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Main Authors: CHEN, Xia, CHENG, Qiang, Lo, Alvis, WANG, Xin
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
Subjects:
employment agreement
severance pay agreement
managerial short-termism
Accounting
Corporate Finance
Human Resources Management
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1034
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:How to address managerial short-termism has been an important issue for companies, regulators, and researchers. In this paper we examine the impact of CEO contractual protection, in the form of employment agreement and severance pay agreement, on managerial short-termism. We find that firms with CEO contractual protection are less likely to cut R&D expenditures to avoid earnings decreases. The effect is both statistically and economically significant. We further find that the effect of CEO contractual protection is stronger in cases where CEOs have stronger incentives to engage in myopic behavior, either due to job security concerns or due to short investment horizon of investors, and in cases where alternative monitoring mechanisms are weaker.

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