We study relative performance evaluation in executive compensation when executives have private information about their … to sort executives of di ?erent abilities. This implies that executive compensation is increasing in own performance, but … may also be increasing in industry performance-a sharp departure from standard relative performance evaluation. This …

We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affect their economic performance. We study a large business … significantly outperformed by any other gender combination, both at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Looking across the performance … performance are explained by differences in decision-making. We observe that three women teams are less aggressive in their …

. In particular, portfolio performance, measured by the Sharpe ratio relative to the tangency portfolio, varies … significantly with liquidity. Moreover, although mean-variance performance becomes clearly worse, the levels of liquidity on optimal …

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten-percent more hours and bring in more … and the differences in aspirations to become a law-firm partner account for a large part of the difference in performance …

ways. First, it increases the sensitivity of pay to performance. Second, it increases whithin-firm pay differentials …

This paper studies the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on individual performance and on … individual affective response, when agents are rewarded according to their absolute performance. In a laboratory set-up, agents … dominance. Control subjects learn only their absolute performance, while the treated subjects additionally learn the average …

We study the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on performance, when individuals are … rewarded according to their absolute performance. A natural experiment that took place in a high school offers an unusual …