Pay-for-(Persistent)-Luck: CEO Bonuses Under Relational and Formal Contracting
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- Ricard Gil & Giorgio Zanarone, 2016. "New Frontiers in Empirical Research on Informal Contracting," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 172(2), pages 390-407, June.
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Keywords
relational contracts; CEO compensation; pay-for-luck;JEL classification:
- C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2014-06-14 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CTA-2014-06-14 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2014-06-14 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
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