Incentive Contracting Under Ambiguity Aversion
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DOI: 10.17016/IFDP.2017.1195
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Keywords
Ambiguity; Executive compensation; Options; Relative performance evaluation;JEL classification:
- G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2017-03-05 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CTA-2017-03-05 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2017-03-05 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-MIC-2017-03-05 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2017-03-05 (Utility Models & Prospect Theory)
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