Firm‐level climate change risk and CEO equity incentives

A Hossain, AA Masum, S Saadi… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We document evidence that CEOs who lead firms that face higher climate change risk
(CCR) receive higher equity‐based compensation. Our finding is consistent with the …

Does CEO risk-aversion affect carbon emission?

A Hossain, S Saadi, AS Amin - Journal of Business Ethics, 2023 - Springer
Does CEO tolerance to risk affect a firm's long-run sustainability? Using CEO insider debt
holding, we show that CEO's risk-aversion encourages immoral yet rational decisions of …

Chief executive officer power and board gender diversity

J Brodmann, A Hossain, M Singhvi - Finance Research Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
This study explores the role of chief executive officer (CEO) power in determining board
gender diversity. We constructed a CEO power index to measure gender diversity. We find …

US political corruption and quarterly conference calls

L Chourou, AT Hossain, A Jha - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
We find that managers obfuscate during conference calls when their firm's headquarters is in
a politically corrupt state, and they do so to shield assets from corrupt officials. The positive …

Incentive pay sensitivity to firm performance prior to anticipated CEO turnover

DV Chulkov, JM Barron - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
This study explores whether the sensitivity of CEO compensation to changes in firm
performance depends on the CEO's likelihood of leaving the position. In a sample of 3180 …

Do institutional framework and its threshold matter in the sensitivity of CEO pay to firm performance? Fresh insights from an emerging market economy

CO Olaniyi, AO Young, XV Vo… - Managerial and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the role of institutional quality and its threshold in the sensitivity of CEO
pay to firm performance in an emerging market economy, using a generalized method of …

Common ownership and executive pay-for-performance sensitivity: Evidence from China

T Xu, L Xu, S Zhu - Research in International Business and Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
This study focuses on the impact of common ownership on executive pay-for-performance
sensitivity using a sample of A-share listed firms in China from 2008 to 2020. We find …

Do external labor market incentives improve labor investment efficiency?

H Chowdhury, A Hossain, K Tan, J Zheng - Journal of Behavioral and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of CEO external labor market incentives, proxied by CEO
industry tournament incentives (CITI), on a firm's labor investment efficiency (LIE). We …

Strength in numbers: Minority shareholders' participation and executives' pay-performance sensitivity

Q Wang, M Qiu - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates the effects of minority shareholders' participation in annual general
meetings (AGMs) on executives' pay–performance sensitivity (PPS) in a Chinese stock …

Chinese corporate governance research over the last decade (2014-2023)

G Zheng, F He, Z Xiao, W Han - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper aims to summarize the academic research trend of corporate governance in
China from 2014 to 2023. We collect papers published in the journals included in the …