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Pay for Performance in Volatile Markets

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  • Miles Cahill

    (Department of Economics, College of the Holy Cross)

  • Alaina George

Abstract

In recent years, literature has suggested that executive compensation schemes conform to principal-agent models of incentive pay. Specifically, when analyzing total compensation (including stock options), executive pay seems to be positively related to the market performance of the corporation's stock. However, such studies were performed during the recent bull market of the 1990s. This paper estimates a model of incentive pay using data from more recent volatile markets of 1999-2001, and finds that the incentive component of executive pay has at least diminished, and has perhaps reversed. Thus, incentive pay may be something of a "fair weather" phenomenon.

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  • Miles Cahill & Alaina George, 2003. "Pay for Performance in Volatile Markets," Working Papers 0302, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hcx:wpaper:0302
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