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An appropriate measure of corporate performance is believed to be highly correlated to firm value on one hand and … paper examines the power of select performance measures in discriminating the Positive and Negative Value creation of the … companiesExamination of the discriminating power of the performance measures for the pooled cross section of data reveals that the EVA has …
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the collection and use of information for the purpose of subjective performance evaluation. I find that managers with self …-evaluations afterwards. My findings increase our knowledge about the role of subjective performance evaluations in modern organizational …
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remedy to the problem, proposed a firm's commitment to incomplete use of past performance in setting future targets. In this … achievement level, the type of a performance measure, and the importance weight. Using a confidential dataset that consists of 1 …,208 performance-measure-year observations with the complete set of information including targets, actual performance, and importance …
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We model relative performance evaluation (RPE) when a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has the power to opportunistically … benefits of receiving a higher bonus by economizing on expected peer-group performance. The Board of Directors (BoD) is less … CEOs choose to reduce common risk only partially and that BoDs choose to not implement RPE if expected peer performance is …
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performance is rewarded or individual performance is rewarded. Pre-decision information only affects agents’ incentives, which in … turn depend on the type of performance evaluation system. With public information and group performance measures, the … high state is more informative, so the principal prefers to be able to distinguish the states. With individual performance …
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can use compensation awards that increase managerial performance incentives (delta) and risk-taking incentives (vega) in …
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Prior research argues that a manager whose wealth is more sensitive to changes in the firm's stock price has a greater incentive to misreport. However, if the manager is risk-averse and misreporting increases both equity values and equity risk, the sensitivity of the manager's wealth to changes...
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In this study, we examine whether CEOs' stock-based compensation has any relationship with the disclosure of highly proprietary information. While prior studies suggest that stock-based compensation provides managers with an incentive to enhance their voluntary disclosures in general, we argue...
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Using data that includes specific contractual details of Relative Performance Evaluation (RPE) contracts granted to … accounting performance and RPE awards of cash contingent on accounting performance convey the incentive to increase firm risk …
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Traditional finance theory suggests that riskier investments should yield higher returns. Challenging this notion, anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests that highly-incented managers may take on excessive risk, leading to greater losses, while other theoretical research argues that high...
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