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This note demonstrates how performance measure congruity and noise determine an agency's total surplus within an linear …
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Why does incentive pay often depend on subjective rather than objective performance evaluations? After all, subjective … performance is unknown. …
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We analyze the optimal design of rank-order tournaments with heterogeneous workers. Iftournament prizes do not differ between the workers(uniform prizes), as in the previous tournament literature, the outcome will be ineffcient. In the case of limited liability, the employer may benefit from...
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report the agent's performance truthfully, while all others report favorably independent of performance. This implies that … overstated performance (leniency bias) may be the outcome of optimal contracts under informational asymmetries. …
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In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that in equilibrium the principal reveals in-termediate...
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substantial negative impact on the probability that an employee's pay is performance contingent. …
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In this paper, a principal's decision between delegating two tasks or handling one of the two tasks herself is analyzed. We assume that the principal uses both, formal contracts and informal agreements sustained by the value of future relationships (relational contracts) as incentive device. It...
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This paper reports on the results of an experiment testing whether the agents selfselect between a competitive payment scheme and a revenue-sharing scheme depending on their inequity aversion. Average efficiency should be increased when these payment schemes are endogenously chosen by agents. We...
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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through …-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer …
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in performance compensation since monitoring managers becomes less efficient. Using data on CEO compensation and …
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