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Using a model with constant relative risk-aversion preferences, endogenous labor supply and partial insurance against … cost associated with missing insurance markets. On the other hand, greater wage dispersion presents opportunities to raise … second moments of the joint distribution over individual wages, consumption and hours …
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This paper presents theory and evidence on horizontal industry structure, focusing on situations where plant …
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This paper investigates whether observed executive compensation contracts are designed to provide risk-taking incentives in addition to effort incentives. We develop a stylized principal-agent model that captures the interdependence between firm risk and managerial incentives. We calibrate the...
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We investigate the impact of changes in states' anti-takeover legislation on executive compensation. We find both pay for performance sensitivities and mean pay increase for the firms affected by the legislation (relative to a control group). These findings are partially consistent with an...
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the executive. Agency theory remains the only viable candidate for answering the question about how executive compensation … compensation, in the context of agency theory. We suggest two fertile areas for research regarding the improvement of executive …
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this risk. We use our theory to interpret some executive compensation data from the early 1970's. The results are generally …
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The principal-agent model of executive compensation is of central importance to the modern theory of the firm and …
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of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and … consumption, compared to the empirical estimates of 32% and 19%. Most of the consumption insurance against permanent male wage …-household income insurance mechanism strongly biases upward the welfare losses from idiosyncratic wage risk as well as the desired …
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