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In this article, the author deals with two issues related to the setting of adequate remuneration of independent members of board of directors. The first concerns the justifiability of negotiating variable remuneration, while the other deals with the issue of providing high pay. In both cases,...
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governance policies, such as managerial pay, and curbing competition. We study a model where managers can exert unobservable cost …
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We show that the choice of an independent board serves as a commitment by management that it will abstain from ex post decisions that are not in shareholder interests. However, an independent board, relying on product market information to make or approve strategic decisions, also makes the firm...
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incentivizes managers to perform better and thus saves on the cost of providing pay for performance. However, when managerial … talent is scarce, firms compete to attract better managers. This reduces an individual firm's incentives to invest in … by other firms' governance. In equilibrium, better managers end up at firms with weaker governance, and conversely …
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This paper provides a theoretical model for explaining the separation of ownership and control in firms. An entrepreneur hires a worker, whose effort is necessary for running a project. The worker's effort determines the probability that the project will be completed on time, but the worker...
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