We show that the amount of information in equilibrium increases in the expected profitability of the firm’s investments, and that this creates an amplification mechanism from changes in fundamentals to real value. Uncertainty about future performance has a non-trivial effect on information...

actions of heterogeneously informed agents.

This paper presents a unified framework for understanding the determinants of both CEO incentives and total pay levels in competitive market equilibrium. It embeds a modified principal-agent problem into a talent assignment model to endogenize both elements of compensation. The model's closed...