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Say on Pay: Do Shareholders Care?Carsten Gerner-BeuerleLondon School of Economics and Political Science Tom KirchmaierLondon School of Economics - Financial Markets Group (FMG) February 1, 2016 FMG Discussion Paper DP751 Abstract: This paper examines the impact of enhanced executive remuneration disclosure rules under UK regulations introduced in 2013 on the voting pattern of shareholders. Based on a hand-collected dataset on the pay information disclosed by FTSE 100 companies, we establish that shareholders guide their vote by top line salary, and appear to disregard the remaining substantial body of information provided to them. Analyzing the unique British feature of two votes, one forward looking and one backward looking, we establish that shareholders differentiate between the two dimensions in about 23% of the cases. In contrast to the rationale of the legislation that introduced the two votes, however, differentiating voting behavior is not driven by characteristics of the executive’s remuneration policy, but mainly by exceptionally positive future performance expectations.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 43 Keywords: Executive remuneration, say-on-pay, disclosure regulation, shareholder voting JEL Classification: G34, G38, K22 Date posted: January 25, 2016 ; Last revised: June 24, 2016Suggested CitationContact Information
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