We study the relation between compensation practices, incentives, and performance in private equity using new data that … performance incentives, we find no evidence that higher compensation or lower managerial ownership are associated with worse net … productivity of manager skills, and in which managers with higher compensation earn back their pay by delivering higher gross …

We investigate whether bank performance during the credit crisis of 2008 is related to CEO incentives and share … no evidence that banks with CEOs whose incentives were better aligned with the interests of their shareholders performed …

We derive a measure that captures the extent to which overlapping ownership structures shift managers' incentives to … possibility that the growth of common ownership has had a significant impact on managerial incentives.Institutional subscribers to …

What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the … strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and … small firms. We show that while one measure of CEO incentives (the dollar change in CEO wealth per dollar change in firm …

The paper studies how a person's concern for a future career may influence his or her incentives to put in effort or …

educator performance metrics and measures of student achievement. To mitigate incentives for coaching, incentive systems should … information about student achievement because they create no incentives for educators to take hidden actions that contaminate …

about fundamentals to investors and managers. First, we show that the informational feedback between the firm's share price … that explicitly linking managerial compensation to share prices gives managers an incentive to manipulate the firm …'s decisions to their own benefit. The managers take advantage of shareholders by taking excessive investment risks when the market …

provision of incentives to corporate scientists, in an environment where (1) scientists engage in multiple activities when …-monetary incentives; and (4) firms compete on the product market. We show that both the degree of knowledge spillovers and of market … competition affect the incentives given to scientists, and these effects interact. First, high knowledge spillovers lead firms to …