What determines the quality of remuneration policy in financial holding companies? An analysis based on the example of the UniCredit Group

This study seeks to examine the quality of the remuneration policy (RP) and identify its main determinants within a financial holding company (FHC) – the UniCredit Group. The results show that the quality of remuneration policy in the examined FHC was low. Although the dominant bank is characteri...

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Main Author: Agata Wieczorek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Warsaw 2022-08-01
Series:Journal of Banking and Financial Economics
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Online Access:https://jbfe.wz.uw.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=231798
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description This study seeks to examine the quality of the remuneration policy (RP) and identify its main determinants within a financial holding company (FHC) – the UniCredit Group. The results show that the quality of remuneration policy in the examined FHC was low. Although the dominant bank is characterized by high remuneration policy standards, the rest of the group is not. The empirical approaches used show that remuneration policy quality was positively related to the size of the bank and the transparency index of the remuneration policy, but negatively affected by the selected corporate governance determinants.
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spelling doaj.art-dcfb6d7591ca4124a48c086204d6fdd32024-04-03T01:51:13ZengUniversity of WarsawJournal of Banking and Financial Economics2353-68452022-08-0120221(17)749710.7172/2353-6845.jbfe.2022.1.5What determines the quality of remuneration policy in financial holding companies? An analysis based on the example of the UniCredit GroupAgata Wieczorek0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2721-3041Department of Institutional Economics and Microeconomics, University of LodzThis study seeks to examine the quality of the remuneration policy (RP) and identify its main determinants within a financial holding company (FHC) – the UniCredit Group. The results show that the quality of remuneration policy in the examined FHC was low. Although the dominant bank is characterized by high remuneration policy standards, the rest of the group is not. The empirical approaches used show that remuneration policy quality was positively related to the size of the bank and the transparency index of the remuneration policy, but negatively affected by the selected corporate governance determinants.https://jbfe.wz.uw.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=231798banking and insurancecorporate governancefinancial holding companyremuneration policyquality index of the remuneration policy
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What determines the quality of remuneration policy in financial holding companies? An analysis based on the example of the UniCredit Group
Journal of Banking and Financial Economics
banking and insurance
corporate governance
financial holding company
remuneration policy
quality index of the remuneration policy
title What determines the quality of remuneration policy in financial holding companies? An analysis based on the example of the UniCredit Group
title_full What determines the quality of remuneration policy in financial holding companies? An analysis based on the example of the UniCredit Group
title_fullStr What determines the quality of remuneration policy in financial holding companies? An analysis based on the example of the UniCredit Group
title_full_unstemmed What determines the quality of remuneration policy in financial holding companies? An analysis based on the example of the UniCredit Group
title_short What determines the quality of remuneration policy in financial holding companies? An analysis based on the example of the UniCredit Group
title_sort what determines the quality of remuneration policy in financial holding companies an analysis based on the example of the unicredit group
topic banking and insurance
corporate governance
financial holding company
remuneration policy
quality index of the remuneration policy
url https://jbfe.wz.uw.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=231798
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