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CEO Incentive Contracts in China: Why does City Location Matter?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai

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Authors

Alex Bryson

John Forth

Minghai Zhou



Contributors

Jaime Ortega
Editor

Abstract

CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We show that city and provincial policy experiments help explain this variance. We examine the role of two policy experiments: the use of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), and the privatization of state owned enterprises (SOEs). The introduction of SEZs is found to be uncorrelated with the prevalence of CEO incentive contracts. However, firms are more likely to use such contracts in areas that saw rapid SOE privatisation, irrespective of the firm's own current ownership status and irrespective of the size of the SOE sector in the late 1970s. The positive effect of privatisation is robust to various estimation techniques and model specifications. These findings suggest that domestic privatisation policies have been more influential than FDI in driving the expansion of incentive contracts in China.

Citation

Bryson, A., Forth, J., & Zhou, M. (2014). CEO Incentive Contracts in China: Why does City Location Matter?. In J. Ortega (Ed.), International perspectives on participation (25-49). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0885-333920140000015009

Online Publication Date Nov 21, 2014
Publication Date Nov 21, 2014
Deposit Date Sep 9, 2015
Publicly Available Date Sep 9, 2015
Publisher Emerald
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Issue 15
Pages 25-49
Series Title Advances in the economic analysis of participatory and labor-managed firms
Book Title International perspectives on participation
ISBN 9781784411695
DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/S0885-333920140000015009
Keywords Executive compensation, CEOs, Privatisation, FDI, China, Cities
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/739539
Publisher URL http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S0885-333920140000015009
Contract Date Sep 9, 2015

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