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more sensitive to the firm's stock price the innovation performance of a firm improves. Entrenched managers, however, are …This paper investigates whether aligning manager and owner incentives can improve the innovation performance of firms …-term incentives have little impact on innovation. Higher managerial tenure increases the probability of R&D spending and innovation …
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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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Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
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We analyze the optimal contract between a risk-averse manager and the initial shareholders in a two-period model where the manager's investment effort, carried out in period 1, and her current effort, carried out in period 2, both impact the second-period profit, so that it may be difficult to...
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