Replication Data: The Governance of Director Compensation
Creators:
Lily Fang and Sterling Huang
Publication Date:
2024-02-16
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Dataset Description:
This dataset, hosted on Mendeley Data, contains the replication data for the study "The Governance of Director Compensation" (Fang & Huang, 2024, Journal of Financial Economics). It includes board-level and firm-level data on director pay, compensation structures, and governance characteristics, used to examine how corporate governance mechanisms influence the setting of director compensation and whether director pay is aligned with shareholder interests or reflects rent extraction by insiders.
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