Relative Wealth Concerns, Executive Compensation, and Systemic Risk-Taking
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Keywords
Relative wealth concerns; Managerial compensation; Pay-for-luck; Excessive risk-taking;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2016-05-28 (Business Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2016-05-28 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2016-05-28 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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