An examination of the effect of CEO social ties and CEO reputation on nonprofessional investors’ say-on-pay judgments

Business & Economics

• Nonprofessional Investors 100%
• Social Ties 80%
• CEO Compensation 59%
• Chief Executive Officer 52%
• Compensation Committees 34%
• Executive Compensation 27%
• Fairness 19%
• Financial Reporting 17%
• Financial Disclosure 15%
• Fairness Perceptions 8%
• Experimental Design 7%
• Research Policy 7%
• Investors 7%
• Disclosure 6%
• Hypothesis Test 5%
• Public Policy 5%
• Stock Exchange 4%
• Experiment 3%

Social Sciences

• say 89%
• investor 65%
• reputation 62%
• fairness 50%
• examination 38%
• stock exchange 19%
• research policy 13%
• public policy 10%
• moral philosophy 9%
• experiment 7%
• present 7%
• literature 5%
• student 3%

Arts & Humanities

• Investors 77%
• Fairness 18%
• Disclosure 16%
• Research Policy 7%
• Hypothesis Test 6%
• Experimental Design 5%
• Public Policy 4%
• Experiment 3%