Explaining the Association between Monitoring and Controversial CEO Pay Practices: an Optimal Contracting Perspective
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CEO pay; corporate governance; monitoring; pay-for-luck;JEL classification:
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2014-02-08 (All new papers)
- NEP-BEC-2014-02-08 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CTA-2014-02-08 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2014-02-08 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
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