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The Tenuous Tradeoff Between Risk and Incentives
Prendergast, Canice - 2000
Empirical work testing for a negative tradeoff between risk and incentives, a cornerstone of agency theory, has not had …
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Risk and the CEO Market : Why Do Some Large Firms Hire Highly-Paid, Low-Talent CEOs?
Edmans, Alex - 2010
This paper presents a market equilibrium model of CEO assignment, pay and incentives under risk aversion and heterogeneous moral hazard. Each of the three outcomes can be summarized by a single closed-form equation. In assignment models without moral hazard, allocation depends only on firm size...
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The Other Side of the Tradeoff : The Impact of Risk on Executive Compensation
Aggarwal, Rajesh - 1998
The principal-agent model of executive compensation is of central importance to the modern theory of the firm and …
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Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility
Pan, Yihui - 2013
When there is uncertainty about a CEO's quality, news about the firm causes rational investors to update their expectation of the firm's profitability for two reasons: Updates occur because of the direct effect of the news, and also because the news can cause an updated assessment of the CEO's...
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Fund Managers, Career Concerns, and Asset Price Volatility
Guerrieri, Veronica - 2009
We propose a model where investors hire fund managers to invest either in risky bonds or in riskless assets. Some … managers have superior information on the default probability. Looking at the past performance, investors update beliefs on … their managers and make firing decisions. This leads to career concerns which affect investment decisions, generating a …
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Execution Risk
Engle, Robert - 2006
Transaction costs in trading involve both risk and return. The return is associated with the cost of immediate execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between risk and return in optimal execution should reflect the...
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Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk
Chassang, Sylvain - 2008
We examine the mechanics of deterrence and intervention when fear is a motive for conflict. We contrast results obtained in a complete information setting, where coordination is easy, to those obtained in a setting with strategic risk, where players have different assessments of their...
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Crises and Prices : Information Aggregation, Multiplicity and Volatility
Angeletos, George-Marios - 2004
Many argue that crises -- such as currency attacks, bank runs and riots -- can be described as times of non-fundamental volatility. We argue that crises are also times when endogenous sources of information are closely monitored and thus an important part of the phenomena. We study the role of...
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You Only Die Once : Managing Discrete Interdependent Risks
Heal, Geoffrey - 2003
This paper extends our earlier analysis of interdependent security issues to a general class of problems involving discrete interdependent risks with heterogeneous agents. There is a threat of an event that can only happen once, and the risk depends on actions taken by others. Any agent's...
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Trading on Sunspots
Jovanovic, Boyan - 2014
In a model with multiple Pareto-ranked equilibria we add trade in assets that pay based on the realization of a sunspot. Asset trading restricts the equilibrium set in a way that raises welfare by eliminating equilibria with a high likelihood of disasters. When the probability of a disaster is...
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