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Table 6 RPE pay practices and bank-level characteristics

From: Preaching water but drinking wine? Relative performance evaluation in international banking

RPE-intensity group

N

ROE

Firm stock return

Firm stock return variance

1

83

1.21

0.05

0.16

  

(0.48)

(0.42)

(0.16)

2

84

1.13

0.12

0.13

  

(0.51)

(0.30)

(0.17)

3

84

1.04

0.07

0.12

  

(0.60)

(0.40)

(0.12)

4

84

1.24

-0.02

0.17

  

(0.65)

(0.56)

(0.19)

  1. Note: Using RPE-intensity, we classify firm-year observations into four groups. RPE-intensity is calculated as the ratio of predicted (log) CEO compensation to actual (log) CEO compensation. The ratio of predicted to actual CEO compensation is lowest in group 1 and highest in group 4. ROE is calculated by dividing net sales (datastream code DWSL) by lagged common equity (worldscope item WC03501). The calculation of the yearly stock return is based on the yearly total return index by datastream based on the respective fiscal year. Firm stock return variance is calculated as the variance of the stock returns over the previous 36 months. The table reports group means for each measure. Standard deviations are shown in parentheses