“…International studies confirm the influence of ownership concentration on the level of executive remuneration. Smaller compensations are awarded in markets with concentrated capital (Croci, Gonenc, & Ozkan, 2012;Firth, Fung, & Rui, 2007;Hartzell & Starks, 2003;Luo, 2015) and more lavish packages are offered in settings of shareholding dispersion (Jiang et al, 2009;John, Mehran, & Qian, 2010 In addition to addressing the question of ownership concentration, we evaluated the effect of BD structure on executive remuneration to determine to what extent the relationship between ownership concentration and remuneration is moderated by aspects of BD structure, as predicted by the MPA, which is relatively unexplored in the Brazilian setting.…”