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incentives according to each task's marginal productivity. By contrast, with a relatively large wage floor, the principal … gradually lowers effort incentives to avoid rent payments to the agents, even before the wage floor exceeds the agents …
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's type, a selfish principal has to rely on explicit incentives. A fair principal, by contrast, can effectively induce … implicit incentives and hence does not need to use explicit incentives. Interestingly, if a selfish principal can rely on more … effective explicit incentives, a fair principal becomes more likely to be able to separate from the selfish type and, hence, to …
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Performance pay, at least as usually understand, is no good idea for non-executive directors. They have to supervise and control or in some situations even to fire and replace the executive managers. This means that their performance as supervisors is totally different from the performance of...
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Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal’s evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...
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We estimate a principal-agent model of moral hazard with longitudinal data on firms and managerial compensation over two disjoint periods spanning 60 years to investigate increased value and variability in managerial compensation. We find exogenous growth in firm size largely explains these...
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An advisor is supposed to recommend a financial product in the best interest of her client. However, the best product for the client may not always be the product yielding the highest commission to the advisor. Do advisors nevertheless provide truthful advice? If not, will a voluntary or...
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. Incentives of advisors and clients may not be aligned, when fees are used by financial institutions to steer advice. We …
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I analyze a model in which a principal offers a contract to an agent and can influence the agent’s marginal return of effort by the choice of the project mission. The principal’s and the agents’ mission preferences are misaligned, and the agents have unobservable intrinsic motivation...
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incentives for effort delay, but also decreases the probability that the project will be terminated in due time. In this trade …
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Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal s evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly unverifiable message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...
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