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Little is known about why CEOs voluntarily purchase shares of their firm other than because they expect to directly profit from doing so. However, since CEOs are risk-averse, highly un-diversified, and face litigation costs from trading on favorable private information, direct profits are...
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. With group measures, only team success is rewarded, but cooperation is more costly in the higher productive states when the … measures, the principal can replicate the group performance measure or induce competition, and in both cases prefers no …
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Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when …
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Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability.  Risk-neutral managers may not …
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. The results favor the team perspective under which unilateral shirking is assumed infeasible for managers. The analysis … compensation in S&P 1500 firms, which distinguish between a team perspective and an individual perspective. This approach assesses …-based measures of agency costs. The risk premium can explain up to 37% of total compensation for higher-paid managers in large firms …
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. The results favor the team perspective under which unilateral shirking is assumed infeasible for managers. The analysis … compensation in S&P 1500 firms, which distinguish between a team perspective and an individual perspective. This approach assesses …-based measures of agency costs. The risk premium can explain up to 37% of total compensation for higher-paid managers in large firms …
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In this paper, we investigate whether institutional investors intervene in firms in order to impact their incentive systems. We use metrics based on geographic distance between institutional investors as proxies for the intensity of their strategic interactions and plausible interventions. We...
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with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate …, which occur in both compensation incentives and team composition. The results of a real effort experiment conducted with … managers within a large pharmaceutical company not only show that changes in compensation incentives affect performance but …
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This internet appendix provides additional analyses and robustness checks to support the main findings of the paper.The paper, Teaming Up and Quiet Intervention: The Impact of Institutional Investors on Executive Compensation Policies, may be found at: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2475347'...
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When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
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