throughout the economy and include contracts linking CEO pay directly to firm performance, annual bonus schemes, the posting of … performance bonds, and holding company stock. These incentive mechanisms appear to complement rather than substitute for one … another. The elasticity of pay with respect to company performance is one or more in two-fifths of the cases where CEO's have …

literature on the prevalence and correlates of performance bonds posted by corporate executives. We show that they are an … important feature in today's CEO labour market in China: around one-tenth of corporations deploy performance bonds and they are …

We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes …

to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied … by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay reduces performance unless it is accompanied by motivational talk. By … adding motivational sentences to an otherwise neutral explanation of the work task, the effect of performance pay goes from …

us to estimate the impact of receiving an award on effort. The performance of winners proves to be significantly higher …

performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are typically of a vague nature. They derive their value, for instance, from …