an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

misalignment between managers and the firm, these two purposes are in conflict. This is because the worker with the largest private …: employees that create lower expected profits as managers have yet better promotion prospects. That finding still holds when the … firm owner optimally chooses the promotion rule, the degree of delegation, and wage payments to both employees and managers …

-financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China: the increase in compensation and the stickiness of this compensation for … financial performance based on corporate awards in SOEs are both stronger than in non-SOEs. Moreover, when managers cannot fully … obtain other forms of incentives (such as perk consumption or equity incentives), the effect of corporate awards on managers …

This paper focuses on the effect of relative performance evaluation (RPE) on top managers’ compensation in Chinese … tasks of managers in SOEs. …

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …