This paper suggests a way of aligning two economically related, but sometimes antinomic in interests goals: enterprise performance indicators and respectively connected pay system using goal-based motivational design. Responding to this, the aspects of enterprise performance/pay relations are...

Influenced by their compensation plans, CEOs make their own luck through decisions that affect future firm risk. After adopting a relative performance evaluation (RPE) plan, total and idiosyncratic risk are higher, and the correlation between firm and industry performance is lower. The opposite...

This paper studies the relation between managerial power, the manager's compensation contract, and firm performance when the manager's contract comprises a stock-based pay and a fixed salary. When there is no cap on the manager's salary, the size of the manager's stock-based compensation is the...

This paper examines the role that managerial equity incentive schemes have on corporate innovation outcomes in developing economies. Utilizing a large and representative sample of Chinese publicly listed firms, we show that while managerial equity incentive schemes have a positive average effect...

This study examines globalization of monitoring practices by focusing on how American (U.S.) influences on European firms impact the dismissal risk for these firms' CEOs. Specifically, we argue that the stronger short term orientation of the American corporate governance system increase the...

Do entrepreneurs work less or harder when they borrow more? This paper tests how entrepreneurial effort is affected by the firm's financing choice. In line with the typical agency theory prediction, entrepreneur effort is negatively related to the magnitude of equity financing. Furthermore,...

I investigate the consequences of executive stock option (ESO) risk incentives on risk-taking and future stock returns, conditional on past firm performance. Prior research documents a positive relation between compensation convexity (captured by “vega,” the sensitivity of CEO wealth to...

I investigate how a CEO's prior performance affects her managerial decision making. Controlling for CEO fixed effects and employing reference points, I find that CEOs choose less risky projects after making gains. This result suggests that following good performance, a CEO feels relaxed and...

An appropriate measure of corporate performance is believed to be highly correlated to firm value on one hand and should be able to signal the extent of periodic wealth creation on the other. Using a random sample of 1000 companies, this paper examines the power of select performance measures in...