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Low interest rates and executive risk-taking incentives : evidence from the United States
Castro, Paula; Tascon, Maria T.; Castaño, Francisco J.; … - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 24 (2021) 4, pp. 324-354
incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility … increase the managers’ short-term risk-taking incentives and that those incentives contribute to the risk effectively taken by …
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Creativity and incentives
Charness, Gary; Grieco, Daniela - In: Journal of the European Economic Association : JEEA 17 (2019) 2, pp. 454-496
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Deadlines Versus Continuous Incentives : Evidence from the Patent Office
Frakes, Michael; Wasserman, Melissa F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
behaviors. A performance appraisal system based on continuous temporal incentives, on the other hand, has the potential to …
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Multitasking at work : do firms get what they pay for? : rewarding only one dimension of performance may result in employees ignoring other dimensions
Bartel, Ann - 2017
To align employees’ interests with the firm’s goals, employers often use performance-based pay, but designing such a compensation plan is challenging because performance is typically multifaceted. For example, a sales employee should be incentivized to sell the company’s product, but a...
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M&A Decisions and U.S. Firms’ Voluntary Adoption of Clawback Provisions in Executive Compensation Contracts
Brown, Anna Bergman - 2016
adoption of clawbacks. Our results also suggest that non-U.S. firms can reduce managerial incentives to manipulate post …
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Do not incentivize eco-friendly behavior : go for a competition to go green!
Bühren, Christoph; Daskalakis, Maria - 2015
effort lab experiments with 550 subjects in 11 treatments and one baseline. Our results indicate that monetary incentives to …
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The effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on CEO pay for luck
Paligorova, Teodora (contributor) - 2008
According to the rent-extraction hypothesis, weak corporate governance allows entrenched CEOs to capture the pay-setting process and benefit from events outside of their controlget paid for luck. In this paper, I find that the independence requirement imposed on boards of directors by the...
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The Impact of Financial Distress on CEO Compensation in the United States
Verhasselt, Gertjan - 2017
This M.A. dissertation presents a study of the influence of financial distress on CEO compensation in the United States. It focuses on the four main components of executive compensation: salary, bonus, restricted stock and stock options. More specifically, I apply linear regression to panel data...
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3-Year Pay-for-Performance Analysis of the Largest 100 US Companies
Stern, Hermann J. - 2012
This paper is a summary of the findings of analyzing pay and performance for the largest 100 companies from 2009-2011 (3 years). Performance is measured by indexed Total Shareholder Return and indexed Operating Cash Flow Growth. CEO total realized pay is used as the pay metric. The research...
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Bonus payments and reference point violations
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2010
. -- Reference points ; incentives ; bonus payments ; job satisfaction ; job performance …
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