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Institutions, Financial Accounting Information and Executive Compensation

Institutions, Financial Accounting Information and Executive Compensation. Sun Zheng Li Zeng-quan Liu Feng-wei School of Accountancy Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Outline. Research questions Theoretical analysis and hypothesis development Research design and results

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Institutions, Financial Accounting Information and Executive Compensation

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  1. Institutions, Financial Accounting Information and Executive Compensation Sun Zheng Li Zeng-quan Liu Feng-wei School of Accountancy Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

  2. Outline • Research questions • Theoretical analysis and hypothesis development • Research design and results • conclusions

  3. Research questions(1) • How the institutions affect the role of financial accounting information in the executive compensation contract？ • Some literatures use the sensitivity of executive compensation towards financial accounting profit as the proxy for efficiency of compensation contract (Jensen and Murphy, 1990; Murphy, 1999; Bushman and Smith, 2001)

  4. Research questions(2) • In this paper, we propose that: • The contract on executive compensation should adapt to the institutional environments. e.g, The relationship between the executive compensation and financial accounting information is sensitive to the institutional environments. • The validity of the above method is low.

  5. Theoretical analysis • The contract which the executive compensation should link with the financial accounting profit are conditional on that: • The financial accounting profit is the proxy for which the shareholders pursue. • The costs to measure financial accounting profit are lower enough (Coase, 1937; Alchian and Demstez, 1972; Cheung, 1983) • The structure of contract on executive compensation should be concerned. • The substitution between pecuniary and non-pecuniary salary • The managerial markets are competitive (Alchian, 1969; Demsetz, 1983; Fama, 1983)

  6. Hypothesis development • Analysis of institutional background • Two points • Government intervention • Multiple tasks of SOEs • Related party transactions • Earnings management • Tunneling or propping • The consequences • The correlation between the financial accounting profit and shareholders’ benefits is low • The costs to measure the financial accounting performance are high

  7. Hypothesis development • Two hypothesis • H1: Ceteris paribus, the intervention of government weakens the association between top executive compensation and financial statement based performance indicators. • H2:Ceteris paribus, the existence of related party transactions weakens the association between top executive compensation and financial statement based performance indicators.

  8. Research Design（1） • Sample • 1999-2003 pooled data • Financial companies are deleted • The companies controlled by private agencies are deleted • 3399 observations • Executive compensation • The upper limit of the first interval

  9. Research Design（2） • Related party transaction (RPT) • Related sales, related purchases, related credit, related debit • RPT=1 if all related party transactions scaled by total transaction < median, 0 for others. • Government intervention (Market or GOV) • MARKET=1 if Market Index (Fan and Jin, 2002,2003) <median, O for others • GOV=1 if government intervention index (Fan and Jin, 2002,2003) >median, O for others

  10. Sensitive tests (1) • Managerial control • The corporation is controlled by top executives (Bebchuk and Fried，2003) • Consequences • The expectation is consistent with table 2. • The relationship between pecuniary and non-pecuniary is positive.

  11. Sensitive tests (2) • Test • The proxy for Non-pecuniary (James et al，2000 ) • EXP and TVR • Model • M1: Adj-COMP=SIZE+YEAR+IND • M2：EXP=RCOM+RPT+RPT*RCOM+MARKET+MARKET*RCOM+SIZE+YEAR+IND • M3：TVR=RCOM+RPT+RPT*RCOM+MARKET+MARKET*RCOM+SIZE+YEAR+IND

  12. Sensitive tests（3） • Compensation regulation • The SOE’s executive compensations are regulated by government (Chen, Chen and Wan, 2005) • The consequences • The expectation is consistent with table 2.

  13. Sensitive tests（4） • Test • Model 1: Adj-COMP=Regulation +YEAR+IND • Model 2: RCOM=PER+RPT+RPT*PER+MARKET+MARKET*PER+OTHERS CONTROL VARIABLE

  14. Conclusions • The relationship between the financial accounting information and top executive compensation is sensitive to the institutions such as the government interventions and related party transactions.

  15. Comments are welcome! Thanks!

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