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Corporate governance, bank mergers and executive compensation

Liu, Yan; Padgett, Carol; Varotto, Simone - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 22 (2017) 1, pp. 12-29

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Cascading controls : the effects of managers' incentives on subordinate effort to help or harm

Christ, Margaret H.; Vance, Thomas W. - In: Accounting, organizations and society : an … 65 (2018), pp. 20-32

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The effect of incentives in non-routine analytical team tasks : evidence from a field experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Schindler, David; … - 2018

bonus incentives on the probability of completion of such a task. Bonus incentives increase performance due to the reward …

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Investment, rational inattention, and delegation

Lindbeck, Assar; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2017

We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...

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Does it matter how and how much politicians are paid?

Altindag, Duha Tore; Filiz, S. Elif; Tekin, Erdal - 2017

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Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with … workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that …

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Cheating in the workplace: An experimental study of the impact of bonuses and productivity

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

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Corporate Governance, Bank Mergers and Executive Compensation

Liu, Yan; Padgett, Carol; Varotto, Simone - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2014

Using a sample of US bank mergers from 1995 to 2012, we observe that the pre-post merger changes in CEO bonus are … significantly negatively related to the strength of corporate governance within the bidding bank. This suggests that bonus …. Overall, our results are consistent with the notion that, unlike salary and long-term compensation, bonus compensation is not …

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Paying with Self-Chosen Goals : Incentives and Gender Differences

Dalton, Patricio Santiago; Noussair, Charles; Gonzalez … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

Abstract: To boost employees’ performance, firms often offer monetary bonuses when production goals are reached. However, the evidence suggests that the particular level of a goal is critical to the effectiveness of this practice. Goals must be challenging yet achievable. Computing optimal...

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RISK SEEKING, NONCONVEX REMUNERATION AND REGIME SWITCHING

BARUCCI, EMILIO; MARAZZINA, DANIELE - In: International Journal of Theoretical and Applied … 18 (2015) 02, pp. 1550009-1

We investigate asset management in a regime switching framework when the fund manager aims to beat a certain target for the assets under management over an infinite horizon or over a finite horizon. We consider both a full information and a partial information setting. In a full information...

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