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effect of risk-taking incentives on both the magnitude and composition of firm risk. We find that when the incentive design … lacks RPE features, the incentive portfolio vega motivates CEOs to increase total risk through the systematic component … because it can be hedged. In contrast, when the incentive design includes RPE features, CEOs prefer idiosyncratic risk because …
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taking on excessive risk?• What does it say about SEC rules that the results of this analysis are vastly different from the …
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, but cannot always be eliminated. We apply our results to the choice between specialist and generalist middle managers …
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minimizes income risk, only output-based pay encourages the agent to use his knowledge efficiently. In general, it is optimal to …
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This paper examines the reliance on ESG metrics in executive compensation contracts. In our sample of international publicly traded firms, a rapidly growing fraction incorporate ESG metrics in the compensation schemes of their top executives. Our analysis links the reliance on these metrics to...
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In many organizational contexts, managers might have self-serving incentives whereby giving high evaluations to … employees comes at the expense of their own payoff. In this study, I examine the impact of managers’ self-serving incentives on … the collection and use of information for the purpose of subjective performance evaluation. I find that managers with self …
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reason, this study attempts to analyze the management of risk in Indonesian banks, relying particularly from the commonly …-prescribed indicators, such as; market risk, credit risk, and operational risk. These sets of indicators are analyzed to note the relational …
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Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical test developed by Courty and Marschke (2008) to detect whether the widely used class of Residual Income based...
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Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...
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