Corporate Social Responsibility and CEO Pay Performance Sensitivity: Evidence from Chinese listed firms

Song, Siwen; Ma, S.; Jun, A.

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Authors

Song, Siwen

Ma, S.

Jun, A.

Date

2019

Type

Conference Paper

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Song, S. and Ma, S. and Jun, A. 2019. Corporate Social Responsibility and CEO Pay Performance Sensitivity: Evidence from Chinese listed firms. In: 31st Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) Annual Meeting 2019, 7-9 Jul 2019, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

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31st AsianFA Annual Meeting 2019

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http://www.asian-fa.org/

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Economics, Finance and Property

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76649

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

This study examines the impact of CSR on CEO pay performance sensitivity of Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2016. Our results reveal that CSR performance as well as CSR report disclosure could increase CEO pay performance sensitivity. We find that the increased monitoring towards CEO power is the channel through which CSR impacts on CEO pay performance sensitivity by showing that the positive impact is more profound among SOEs, firms with CEOs taking dual roles and CEOs having political connections. We further show that mandatory feature itself does not contribute to the impact of CSR on CEO pay performance sensitivity in China. Our findings are obtained after controlling firm and year fixed effects, and further confirmed with Generalised Method of Moments IV (IV-GMM) estimation, as well as alternative instrumental variable and different measurement of key variables.