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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 …
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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 …
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Prior literature shows that choices regarding board composition are associated with earnings management. We add to this literature by examining the effects of the presence of a foreign board member on earnings management. Using a sample of 3,249 firm-year observations representing 586...
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Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic …
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We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes …
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to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …
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We investigate the effects of organizational culture and personal value orientations on performance under individual …
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CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We show that city and provincial policy experiments help explain this variance. We examine the role of two policy experiments: the use of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to attract...
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The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales … performance reviews. Experienced teachers were offered an extended pay scale based on performance instead of seniority, and to … skills and performance. This paper reports the results of a panel survey of classroom and head teachers which started in 2000 …
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The introduction of performance-related pay and performance management schemes in the maintained, state, school sector … and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of … related to rising pupil academic performance. …
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