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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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in performance compensation since monitoring managers becomes less efficient. Using data on CEO compensation and …
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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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This paper analyzes the use of alternative performance measures in an agency model in which contracting incorporates … both formal and informal agreements. It is shown that under a proper use of verifiable and unverifiable performance … contrasts earlier results of the literature, and provides a rationale for the application of subjective performance information …
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