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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between corporate risk and the interaction between CEO incentive compensation and CEO overconfidence.Design/methodology/approach – This empirical study performs random and fixed effects regression analysis. It uses...
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empirical relationship between uncertainty and investment. We develop a model in which the manager, compensated with an equity …-based contract, makes investment decisions for a firm that faces time-varying volatility. The contract creates incentives that affect … compensation data to quantify this predicted investment response for a large panel of firms. Our estimates help explain the …
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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 performing agent must beat the second best to receive the...
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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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