Jayaraman, Sudarshan; Milbourn, Todd; Peters, Florian; … - 2017
similarity-based definition of peers (Hoberg and Phillips 2016). RPE predicts that firms filter out common shocks (i.e., those … affecting the firm and its peers) while evaluating CEO performance and that the extent of filtering increases with the number of … peers. Despite the intuitive appeal of the theory, previous tests of RPE find weak and inconsistent evidence, which we argue …