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Standard models of promotion tournaments assume that firms can commit to arbitrary tournament prizes. In this paper, a firm's ability to adjust tournament prizes is constrained by the outside labor market, through the wages other firms are willing to offer to the promoted and unpromoted workers....
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This paper studies the effect of increased competition in the product market on managerial incentives. I propose a simple model of career concerns where firms are willing to pay for managerial talent to reduce production costs, but also to subtract talented CEOs from competitors. This second...
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In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers’ career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such...
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-best allocation and show efficiency can be implemented with decentralization using head taxes. We calibrate the model and compare … decentralization and property taxation are large, dissipating most if not all the potential welfare gains that efficient … decentralization could achieve. In property tax equilibrium centralization is frequently more efficient! An externality in community …
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