nuclear facilities, though have large advantages for human being, they also creates heavy hazards. thus, the question of civil liability resulted from events of mentioned facilities are so significant. this paper studies the question of the basis and the responsible for compensation resulted from aforementioned events in international instruments, iran and french law. outcome of this study show...

Background: The role of employee pay in financial performance is misty, with plenty space to explore. Human resources have been discarded from the mainstream arena despite being a strategic partner.
 Objective: study aims investigate association between compensation and performance.
 Methodology: uses econometric analysis, descriptive correlational trend analysis disclose relationship...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that audit clients are automating more internal controls over time. Audit firms customarily respond to their clients’ increasing IT (information technology) risks by including more IT audit specialists in their external audit engagements. But, using IT audit specialists on the audit engagement to examine the IT risks that external financial statement auditors can exa...

Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive comp...

We survey 396 portfolio managers about the structure of their compensation. Overall, compensation packages are more likely to be “subjective and discretionary” than “objective and formula-based.” Firm success-factors such as firm profitability have more impact on bonuses than client success factors like investment performance. Differences in the structure of compensation across firms, clients, ...

This study estimates union effects on workers' compensation indemnity claims during 1977-92, based on individual panel data constructed from the March Current Population Survey. Union members were substantially more likely to receive workers' compensation benefits than were similar nonunion workers, and they were more sensitive to variation in benefit levels and waiting periods. The authors sug...

I develop a principal-agent model to analyze the interaction among CEO’s equity holding portfolio, firm’s capital structure and executive compensation contract. Unlike a strand of literatures in corporate finance investigating only capital structure and compensation contract, this paper asks the question whether executive’s equity option holding and firm’s financial leverage jointly affect mana...