This paper proposes a simple economic intuition that the effectiveness of tournaments is closely related to the number of individuals participating in the competition. Specifically, tournaments with too few (too many) contestants are not conducive to stimulating efforts due to windfalls (sure...

This paper studies, both theoretically and empirically, how subordinates to CEOs can discipline the CEOs' self-serving activities. I predict that, because CEOs' self-serving activities hurt the subordinates through the subordinates' stakes in the firms, the subordinates who observe these...