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Corporate deductibility provisions and managerial incentives

Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2013

findings suggest that, when managers engage in wasteful capital expenditures, welfare may decline if the cost of investment is …

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Management incentives under formula apportionment : tax-induced distortions of effort and compensation in a principal-agent setting

Martini, Jan T.; Niemann, Rainer; Simons, Dirk - 2014

compensation to managers in low-tax jurisdictions, if payroll enters the FA formula. Managers in high-tax jurisdictions face the …

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A theory of tax avoidance : managerial incentives for tax planning in a multi-task principal-agent model

Ewert, Ralf; Niemann, Rainer - 2014

We derive determinants of tax avoidance by means of a multi-task principal-agent model. We extend prevailing models by integrating both corporate and individual income taxation as well as by including tax planning effort in the agent’s action portfolio. Our model shows novel and apparently...

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Disentangling managerial incentives from a dynamic perspective : the role of stock grants

Hili, Amal; Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van - 2016

We analyze the optimal contract between a risk-averse manager and the initial shareholders in a two-period model where the manager's investment effort, carried out in period 1, and her current effort, carried out in period 2, both impact the second-period profit, so that it may be difficult to...

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Yes, managers should be paid like bureaucrats

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Osterloh, Margit (contributor) - 2005

. Agency theory’s insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance …

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Do firms gain from managerial overconfidence? : the role of severance pay

Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - 2022

We analyze the effects of optimism and overconfidence when the manager's compensation package includes severance pay and the CEO has bargaining power. We find that optimism does not affect incentive pay but increases severance pay with a negative effect on profit. Overconfidence, on the...

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CEO compensation

Frydman, Carola; Jenter, Dirk - 2010

result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others interpret high pay as the result of optimal contracting in a …

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CEO compensation : evidence from the field

Edmans, Alex; Gosling, Tom; Jenter, Dirk - 2021

We survey directors and investors on the objectives, constraints, and determinants of CEO pay. 67% of directors would sacrifice shareholder value to avoid controversy on CEO pay, implying they face significant constraints other than participation and incentive compatibility. These constraints...

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Strategic delegation in experimental markets

Huck, Steffen; Müller, Wieland; Norman, Hans-Theo - 2000

contracts which determine their managers' salaries. One contract simply gives managers incentives to maximize firm profits …, while the second contract gives an additional sales bonus. Although theory predicts the second contract to be chosen, it is … only rarely chosen in the experimental markets. This behavior is rational given that managers do not play according to the …

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Attention-driven demand for bonus contracts

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Köster, Mats; Peiseler, Florian - 2019

In many markets supply contracts include a series of small, regular payments made by consumers and a single, large bonus that consumers receive at some point during the contractual period. But, if for instance its production costs exceed its value to consumers, such a bonus creates...

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