We analyze the relationship between the ownership structure and executive compensation in a sample of large listed German companies over the period from 1987 to

Executive compensation has gained widespread public attention in recent years, with the pay of top U.S. executives reaching unprecedented levels compared either

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erl

We analyze a hand-collected dataset of 1682 executive compensation packages at 34 firms included in the main German stock market index (DAX) for the years 2009-

Pascal Engel investigates how outside directors are incentivized in family firms that are publicly listed but still partly owned by members of the founding fami