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Compensation Regulation in Banking: Executive Director Behavior and Bank Performance after the EU Bonus Cap

The regulation that caps executives’ variable compensation, as part of the Capital Requirements Directive IV of 2013, likely affected executive turnover, compensation design, and risk-taking in EU banking. The current study identifies significantly higher average turnover rates but also finds that they are driven by CEOs at poorly performing banks. Banks indemnified their executives by off-setting the bonus cap with higher fixed compensation. Although our evidence is only suggestive, we do not find any reduction in risk-taking at the bank level, one purported aim of the regulation.

15. August 2023

Authors Stefano Colonnello Michael Koetter Konstantin Wagner

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