As financial performance measures are not the sole determinant of chief executive officer (CEO) compensation, researchers have investigated social relationships between the CEO and the supervisory board's (SB's) members to identify other determinants. However, different conclusions have been...

In this paper the impact of ability and learning potential on incentive contracts is analyzed. A central feature of the model is that the true ability will not be revealed. The learning potential of an agent is modeled as the magnitude of impact on the agent's expected ability that...

The benefit of non-information rationing aggregate performance evaluation is studied in a limited commitment setting. Depending on the prior distribution of the managerial skill parameter, an equal bonus rule, that is intertemporal aggregation of performance measures, can be efficient as it...

In this paper the impact of ability and learning potential on incentive contracts is analyzed. The model's pay structure shows if agents must be motivated both to acquire knowledge and to use it appropriately the most successful agent need not be the one who receives the highest pay ex post. A...

In this paper the impact of ability and learning potential on incentive contracts is analyzed. A central feature of the model is that the true ability will not be revealed. The learning potential of an agent is modeled as the magnitude of impact on the agent's expected ability that...