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 …

informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this …

of instrumental information exist, studying information structures on performance pay. Second, information avoiders …

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 …

influence performance in these tasks. In a field experiment with more than 3000 participants, we document a positive effect of … bonus incentives on the probability of completion of such a task. Bonus incentives increase performance due to the reward … rather than the reference point (performance threshold) they provide. The framing of bonuses (as gains or losses) plays a …