Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms
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| author | Frydman, Carola Molly, Raven S. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/659542022-09-28T11:22:57Z Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms Frydman, Carola Molly, Raven S. Sloan School of Management Frydman, Carola Frydman, Carola http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/00472727 The trends in executive pay and labor income tax rates since the 1940s suggest a high elasticity of taxable income with respect to tax policy. By contrast, the level and structure of executive compensation have been largely unresponsive to tax incentives since the 1980s. However, the relative tax advantage of different forms of pay was small during this period. Using a sample of top executives in large firms from 1946 to 2005, we also find a small short run response of salaries, qualified stock options, and bonuses paid after retirement to changes in tax rates on labor income--even though tax rates were significantly higher and more heterogeneous across individuals in the first several decades following WWII. We explore several potential explanations for the conflicting impressions given by the long-run and short-run correlations between taxes and pay, including changes in social norms and concerns about pay equality. 2011-09-23T19:54:40Z 2011-09-23T19:54:40Z 2011-02 2010-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0047-2727 1879-2316 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65954 Frydman, Carola, and Raven S. Molloy. “Does tax policy affect executive compensation? Evidence from postwar tax reforms.” Journal of Public Economics (2011), Volume 95, Issues 11–12, December 2011, Pages 1425–1437. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.02.005 Journal of Public Economics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Springer Science + Business Media B.V. MIT web domain |
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| title | Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms |
| title_short | Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms |
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