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A standard tournament contract specifies only tournament prizes. If agents' performance is measured on a cardinal scale …, the principal can complement the tournament contract by a gap which defines the minimum distance by which the best …
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There is an emerging consensus that carbon emissions must be limited. An attractive approach to promoting carbon reductions is to encourage reductions in deforestation. But any such strategy must confront a basic problem: agents that might be induced to reduce their actions which would reduce...
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incentives. Benchmarking against peers' performance results in herd behavior to avoid underperformance; a winner-take-all contest …
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exacerbates the risk-shifting problem. An optimal contract binds shareholders and the manager. The flexibility of this contract … optimal contract amplifies the upside thereby increasing shareholder appetite for risk-shifting. Moreover, some empirical …
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optimally offers a contract that makes the agent's utility concave in output. If the agent is risk-neutral and protected by … concavity constraint might bind for some outputs but not others. We characterize the unique profit-maximizing contract and show …
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It is s important for firms to choose appropriate performance measurements when they evaluate their employees' performance. In this paper, we examine the relationship between uncertainty and incentives in which the risk-averse agent has the specific knowledge. We show that uncertainty does not...
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This paper examines the effect of imperfect labor market competition on the efficiency of compensation schemes in a setting with moral hazard and risk-averse agents who have private information on their ability. Two heterogenous firms - characterized by vertical, respectively horizontal,...
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current CEO who may have considerable power. Having signed a contract, the agent chooses how much effort to make to acquire …
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