Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to … whether the widely used class of Residual Income based performance measures — such as Economic Value Added (EVA) — is … economic circumstances and the self-selection of firms using EVA. Our findings indicate that EVA is a distorted performance …

Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to … whether the widely used class of Residual Income based performance measures - such as Economic Value Added (EVA) - is … economic circumstances and the self-selection of firms using EVA. Our findings indicate that EVA is a distorted performance …

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 …

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts … noise and distortion of a performance measure can be measured. Courty and Marschke (2007) have recently developed an elegant … empirical test to detect distortion, based on the degradation of a performance measure subsequent to increasing its weight in …

We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes …

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …