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We analyze the consequences of bonus taxes, limited deductibility of bonuses from company pro ts and a corporate income tax (CIT) in a principal-agent model and explore how these tax instruments affect managerial incentives and how they change the design of incentive contracts used in...
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Using a simple symmetric principal-agent model of two banks, this paper studies the effects of both bailouts and bonus taxes on risk taking and managerial compensation. In contrast to existing literature, we assume financial institutions to be systemic only on a collective basis, implying...
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This study uses rich information on performance outcomes to estimate the effect of bonus pay on worker productivity. We use a policy discontinuity in the call centre of a multi-national telephone company in which management introduced monetary bonuses upon achieving pre-defined performance...
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We study the role of transparency in a novel three-person profit sharing game in which managers and board directors … hypothesis, but reject the second one: Public transparency actually increases managerial wages as well as board director … compensation, further reducing the revenue share that goes to shareholders. Competition to keep managers further magnifies these …
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, while the most able managers obtain a wage increase, less able managers are faced with a reduction in wages. Hence our model …
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