... in the compensation contract have the same distributional properties as similarly named financial statement metrics. executive compensation equity compensation performance-vested equity To measure these incentives, it would be ideal to observe expected share payouts, which would reveal the firm's...

... pay has surged as a proportion of CEO compensation, increasing from a median of 23 percent in 1992 to 56 percent in 2016 and swelling in magnitude from a median grant date fair value of $365,000 in 1992 to $2,899,000 in 2016. Research on CEO equity compensation has primarily focused on equity's role...