directors: Compensation of 336 independent directors in S&P500 firms

Description Usage Format Source

Description

This dataset contains a cross-section of the compensation in GBR of 336 independent directors at 52 S&P500 firms in 3 sectors. The data were collected from Boardex (http://corp.boardex.com/) in 2014.

Usage

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Format

A data frame containing 336 observations and 4 variables:

Sector (factor)

Sector to which the industry belongs.

Industry (factor)

Industry to which the company belongs.

Company (factor)

Company the independent directors wors at.

Male (factor)

Binary dummy indicating if the director is male.

Age (numeric)

Age of the director.

Compensation (numeric)

Compensation, in thousands GBR.

Source

Boardex, 2014


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