CEO Incentives, Relationship Lending, and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Journal Articles

abstract

• We investigate how lending relationships attenuate the conflict of interest between creditors and shareholders that arises from chief executive officer (CEO) compensation contracts. We find that lending relationships mitigate the influence of CEO risk‐taking incentives on loan spreads, especially for informationally opaque firms. In addition, lending relationships attenuate the impact of CEO risk‐taking incentives on maturity and collateral requirements. This article highlights the importance of bank monitoring through lending relationships to mitigate managerial risk‐shifting activities that arise from equity incentives.

authors

• Chen, Liqiang
• Qiu, Jiaping

status

• published 

publication date

• September 2017

has subject area

• 1502 Banking, Finance and Investment (FoR)
• Finance (Science Metrix)

published in

• Financial Management  Journal

keywords

• Business & Economics
• Business, Finance
• CAPITAL STRUCTURE
• DEBT
• DETERMINANTS
• EXECUTIVE-COMPENSATION
• FIRM
• INVESTMENT
• RISK-TAKING
• SENSITIVITIES
• STOCK OPTION PORTFOLIOS
• Social Sciences
• VOLATILITY

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/fima.12156

start page

• 627

end page

• 654

volume

• 46

issue

• 3