Limits to Relative Performance Evaluation: Evidence from Bank Executive Turnover

by Office of the Comptroller of the Currenc and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

This paper revisits the topic of relative performance evaluation (RPE) of top management using a large panel of community banks. We show that penalizing executives for poor performance arising from economic downturns is not necessarily inconsistent with the theory. Our empirical results indicate that weak downturn-linked performance is strongly related to increased executive turnover. Furthermore, this relationship is more pronounced in better-governed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505310172
• ISBN13: 9781505310177
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"