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Objective versus subjective performance evaluations

Terstiege, Stefan - 2013

Why does incentive pay often depend on subjective rather than objective performance evaluations? After all, subjective … performance is unknown. …

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Performance measure congruity in linear agency models with interactive tasks

Budde, Jörg - 2006 - revised version, November 2006

This note demonstrates how performance measure congruity and noise determine an agency's total surplus within an linear …

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Optimal contracts for lenient supervisors

Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2008

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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Feedback in tournaments under commitment problems : theory and experimental evidence

Gürtler, Oliver; Harbring, Christine - 2007

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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Performance pay and risk aversion

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2006

substantial negative impact on the probability that an employee's pay is performance contingent. …

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On delegation under relational contracts

Gürtler, Oliver - 2006

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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Optimal tournament contracts for heterogeneous workers

Gürtler, Oliver; Kräkel, Matthias - 2008

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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Hidden benefits of reward : a field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives

Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - 2013

interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only when accompanied by … performance pay. Moreover, performance pay slightly reduces performance unless it is accompanied by motivational talk. These … effects also carry over to the quality of work. Performance pay alone leads to more mistakes. Adding motivational talk makes …

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Trade, technologies, and the evolution of corporate governance

Schymik, Jan Simon - 2015

in performance compensation since monitoring managers becomes less efficient. Using data on CEO compensation and …

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Variance analysis and linear contracts in agencies with distorted performance measures

Budde, Jörg - 2007

distorted performance measurement. A riskneutral agency with linear contracts is analyzed, whereby the agent receives … postcontract, pre-decision information on his productivity. If the performance measure is informative with respect to the agent …

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