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A strictly risk-averse manager makes joint decisions on a firm's tax payments and book profit declarations according to … making untruthful profit declarations, and (4) the tax rate. If the firm's owner or the government takes into account these … effects when pursuing his own objectives, the changes in tax payments and book profit declarations become theoretically more …
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Classic financial agency theory recommends compensation through stock options rather than shares to induce risk neutrality in otherwise risk averse agents. In an experiment, we find that subjects acting as executives do also take risks that are excessive from the perspective of shareholders if...
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Incentive compensation is a central concern in the relationship between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the board of directors and between the CEO and shareholders. This book presents a focus on four key themes that are salient to the current debate on the consequences and determinants of...
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The relationship between CEO pay and performance has been much analyzed in the management and economics literature. This study analyzes the structure of executive compensation in family and non-family firms. In line with predictions of agency theory, it is found that the share of base salary is...
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Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences on remuneration. These influences can be seen as reflecting luck from the CEO's perspective. In this chapter we present a model for how to avoid compensating CEO for...
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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 study interfirm price competition in the presence of horizontal and vertical intrafirm conflicts in each firm. Intrafirm conflicts are captured by a principal-agent framework with firms employing more than one agent and implementing a tournament incentive scheme. The principals offer premium...
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This questionnaire survey of fund managers in the United States, Germany and Switzerland documents a distinctly … significantly related to higher working effort but not to risk taking. They also seem to induce fund managers to rely more on … fundamental information. Findings within regions are confirmed by Trans-Atlantic evidence as US fund managers receive larger …
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and growth opportunities, whereas the managers' pay-forperformance sensitivity remains largely unexplained. Firms with …
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We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility functions. We illustrate the consequences of this...
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