2009•SSRN Electronic JournalOpen access

Is 'Say on Pay' Justified?

Stephen Mark Bainbridge

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There is growing political support for adopting a 'Say on Pay' requirement for executive compensation - that is, shareholders must sign off on executive compensation. This paper examines three premises fundamental to the 'Say on Pay; movement: that current executive compensation is unjustifiably high, that federal legislation is required to address that high compensation, and that federal legislation would be effective in this aim. The paper finds that all three claims are problematic.

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Key concepts: Legislation, Executive compensation, Compensation (psychology), Shareholder, Sign (mathematics), Law and economics, Business, Politics