This paper examines whether fraud allegations affect firms' contracting with the government. Using a dataset of whistleblower allegations brought under the False Claims Act against firms accused of defrauding the government, we find that federal agencies do not reduce the total dollar volume of...

We explore the relation between task complexity, delegation, and incentive compensation. Conventional agency theory posits that task complexity increases the noise in performance measures and is hence associated with lower incentive compensation. However, Prendergast (2002) argues that task...

This study examines performance effects arising from the use of relative performance measurement (RPM) for promotion decisions in the organizational labor market. We use proprietary archival and survey data from the internal audit department of a large organization to document that the use of...