Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation

We thank editor Michael Weisbach, two anonymous referees, Jonathan Berk (the Utah Winter Finance Conference discussant), Alon Brav, Alex Edmans, Carola Frydman (the AFA discussant), Michael Roberts, Ko-Chia Yu, and seminar participants at Bank of Canada, Brock University, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, York University, the 2009 Utah Winter Finance Conference, and the American Finance Association 2010 Annual Meeting for helpful comments. Li and Qiu acknowledge financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.