Chaigneau, Pierre; Edmans, Alex; Gottlieb, Daniel - 2022
This paper studies optimal executive pay when the CEO is concerned about fairness: if his wage falls below a perceived … fair share of output, the CEO suffers disutility that is increasing in the discrepancy. Fairness concerns do not lead to … is slack, the optimal contract continues to involve pay-for-performance, to address the CEO's fairness concerns and …