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Firm-Level Climate Change Risk and CEO Equity Incentives

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  • Ashrafee Hossain
  • Abdullah‐al Masum
  • Samir Saadi
  • Ramzi Benkraiem

    (Audencia Business School)

  • Nirmol Das

Abstract

We document evidence that CEOs who lead firms that face higher climate change risk (CCR) receive higher equity‐based compensation. Our finding is consistent with the compensating wedge differential theory and survives numerous robustness and endogeneity tests. The result is more prominent for firms that are socially responsible, susceptible to higher environmental litigation and part of the non‐high‐tech industries. Furthermore, we find supportive evidence that firms offering higher equity incentives to their CEOs for managing higher CCR are usually better off in the long run via a lower cost of equity capital and higher firm valuation.

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  • Ashrafee Hossain & Abdullah‐al Masum & Samir Saadi & Ramzi Benkraiem & Nirmol Das, 2023. "Firm-Level Climate Change Risk and CEO Equity Incentives," Post-Print hal-04434397, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04434397
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.12652
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-04434397
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    1. Chatjuthamard, Pattanaporn & Singh, Simran & Jiraporn, Pornsit & Lee, Sang Mook, 2024. "Climate change exposure, shareholder wealth, and the adoption of the Paris agreement: A text-based approach," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    2. Hossain, Ashrafee & Rjiba, Hatem & Zhang, Dongyang, 2023. "Ex-ante litigation risk and firm-level climate-change exposure," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 731-746.
    3. Cepni, Oguzhan & Şensoy, Ahmet & Yılmaz, Muhammed Hasan, 2024. "Climate change exposure and cost of equity," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 130(C).

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    Climate change risk; CEO Equity Incentives;

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