Executive compensation and corporate performance in China's real estate industry

By analyzing the relevant data of China's listed real estate companies from 2015 to 2019, I find that executive compensation has been increasing year by year. In 2019, the compensation of executives of listed real estate companies had nearly doubled. However, corporate performance showed a tren...

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Main Author: Zhang, Mengyu
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2020
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/61628/
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description By analyzing the relevant data of China's listed real estate companies from 2015 to 2019, I find that executive compensation has been increasing year by year. In 2019, the compensation of executives of listed real estate companies had nearly doubled. However, corporate performance showed a trend of fluctuating growth. Based on this, this article studies the correlation between executive compensation of listed real estate companies and corporate performance. This article expounds on the principal-agent theory, human capital theory, and efficiency wage theory. In the empirical analysis, this paper adopts the panel data analysis method for analysis. The research results show that executive compensation has a significant positive impact on corporate performance in the real estate industry. To a certain extent, it shows that implementing the annual salary system in which performance and salary are linked in China has played a better supervision and incentive role. At the same time, the corporate performance also has a significant positive impact on executive compensation. This shows that executive compensation of listed real estate companies in China is based on corporate performance. The improvement of corporate performance has promoted an increase in executive compensation. I also find that executive compensation is positively correlated with the company's size, that is, the larger the company is, the higher the executive compensation is. Also, I find that executive compensation is negatively correlated with the largest shareholder's concentration of ownership.
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spelling nottingham-616282022-12-13T16:52:34Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/61628/ Executive compensation and corporate performance in China's real estate industry Zhang, Mengyu By analyzing the relevant data of China's listed real estate companies from 2015 to 2019, I find that executive compensation has been increasing year by year. In 2019, the compensation of executives of listed real estate companies had nearly doubled. However, corporate performance showed a trend of fluctuating growth. Based on this, this article studies the correlation between executive compensation of listed real estate companies and corporate performance. This article expounds on the principal-agent theory, human capital theory, and efficiency wage theory. In the empirical analysis, this paper adopts the panel data analysis method for analysis. The research results show that executive compensation has a significant positive impact on corporate performance in the real estate industry. To a certain extent, it shows that implementing the annual salary system in which performance and salary are linked in China has played a better supervision and incentive role. At the same time, the corporate performance also has a significant positive impact on executive compensation. This shows that executive compensation of listed real estate companies in China is based on corporate performance. The improvement of corporate performance has promoted an increase in executive compensation. I also find that executive compensation is positively correlated with the company's size, that is, the larger the company is, the higher the executive compensation is. Also, I find that executive compensation is negatively correlated with the largest shareholder's concentration of ownership. 2020-12-01 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/61628/1/20161547%20%3BBUSI4136%20UNUK%3BExecutive%20compensation%20and%20corporate%20performance%20in%20China%27s%20real%20estate%20industry.pdf Zhang, Mengyu (2020) Executive compensation and corporate performance in China's real estate industry. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
spellingShingle Zhang, Mengyu
Executive compensation and corporate performance in China's real estate industry
title Executive compensation and corporate performance in China's real estate industry
title_full Executive compensation and corporate performance in China's real estate industry
title_fullStr Executive compensation and corporate performance in China's real estate industry
title_full_unstemmed Executive compensation and corporate performance in China's real estate industry
title_short Executive compensation and corporate performance in China's real estate industry
title_sort executive compensation and corporate performance in china's real estate industry
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/61628/