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 …

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

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

interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …

Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents …. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by …

center of a Fortune 500 financial services provider allow us to estimate the impact of awards on performance. Winning an … award for voluntary work behaviors significantly increases subsequent core call center performance. The effect is short …